I mostly relaxed with a novel yesterday. My hands needed a break. The lichen tea dyepot was the last art project, and it was a success, although it produced almost exactly the same color as the onion… more →
slowly she turnedwrote 5 days ago: I mostly relaxed with a novel yesterday. My hands needed a break. The lichen tea dyepot was the last … more →
wrote 6 days ago: Yesterday was a full day of mixed emotions. I mixed up three colors of Procion dyepots, then combine … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Yesterday was a day of experimentation with natural dyes with just the tannin-laced water of Lake Wa … more →
wrote 1 week ago: I am back in one of my happy places – my cousin’s house at Lake Waccamaw. This time we a … more →
wrote 9 months ago: The day I got to see all the carnivorous plants in North Carolina’s Green Swamp, I also got to … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Meet David Scott, our politics and religion writer. He and his wife, Donna, have been married 34 yea … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Week 4 of tour continued in the Northeast… 02.07.12 – Higher Ground (Burlington, VT) 02. … more →
wrote 1 year ago: From the NC League of Conservation Voters Legislative Watch: ‘Legislative Jihad’ Co … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Greetings all! What’s up with it still feeling like a Monday? And how do I even have a case of the M … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Sitting here in one of my favorite places in the entire world, the glider on the back screened porch … more →
wrote 3 years ago: We decided that this big fella, whose sunbathing was captured by Sandy as we drove home Sunday from … more →
wrote 3 years ago: It is a quiet morning here at Lake Waccamaw, as Garrison Keillor narrates in my head. Sandy is still … more →
wrote 3 years ago: Yesterday was Mama visitin’, fried shrimp and steak eatin’, sittin’ in the water b … more →
wrote 3 years ago: Tender Love This wedding season has been incredible. The season started in January and has the pote … more →
wrote 4 years ago: The cool, tea-colored waters at first appear similar to other lakes in the area, but Lake Waccamaw i … more →
wrote 4 years ago: This third hat from last week is mine, MINE! The hatband is inkle-woven from cotton threads. I looke … more →
wrote 4 years ago: On some mornings, the sky melds with the lake. This is my fourth annual post about a weeklong trip t … more →
wrote 4 years ago: “I’m telling ya, Marge, this is the life. Away from the rat race, just the quiet lapping … more →
wrote 5 years ago: I decided not to try to write a work of literature about the lake trip and just yak about it randoml … more →