Monthly Archives: May 2026

APRIL 26, SUNDAY

CHURCH Another group that it was good to see again. I went to church and after church this group goes every Sunday to Panera for lunch. Here we are just outside where someone was persuaded to take a photograph of

APRIL 26, SUNDAY

CHURCH Another group that it was good to see again. I went to church and after church this group goes every Sunday to Panera for lunch. Here we are just outside where someone was persuaded to take a photograph of

APRIL 25, SATURDAY

WHERE TO NOW? Today, to avoid fitting back in I wondered where to go next, escaping before I have even returned. But this isn’t so easy, either. One of the things I realized on this trip to my wife Kathe’s

APRIL 25, SATURDAY

WHERE TO NOW? Today, to avoid fitting back in I wondered where to go next, escaping before I have even returned. But this isn’t so easy, either. One of the things I realized on this trip to my wife Kathe’s

APRIL 24, FRIDAY

OLD MEN, OLD BOOKS Today I drove to the Black Mountain McDonalds and sat with my octogenarian friends. I felt at home and was warmed by their company. Afterward I stopped by my Swannanoa storage locker and continued the Sisyphean

APRIL 24, FRIDAY

OLD MEN, OLD BOOKS Today I drove to the Black Mountain McDonalds and sat with my octogenarian friends. I felt at home and was warmed by their company. Afterward I stopped by my Swannanoa storage locker and continued the Sisyphean

APRIL 23, THURSDAY

MUSIC AT ZADIE’S This evening the sound of music from across the French Broad River lured me out of my apartment and across the bridge to Zadie’s restaurant in the old Marshall jail, where people sat outside in the sunshine

APRIL 23, THURSDAY

MUSIC AT ZADIE’S This evening the sound of music from across the French Broad River lured me out of my apartment and across the bridge to Zadie’s restaurant in the old Marshall jail, where people sat outside in the sunshine

APRIL 22, WEDNESDAY

HAARLEM ON MY MIND Culture shock is what happens to some people when they enter a culture completely different from their own where they don’t know the language or how to do the simplest things and don’t know what is

APRIL 22, WEDNESDAY

HAARLEM ON MY MIND Culture shock is what happens to some people when they enter a culture completely different from their own where they don’t know the language or how to do the simplest things and don’t know what is