For about ten days now, James and I have been so busy cleaning up the barn and attached buildings up here on the land that I have not had time to get online, except to check e-mail briefly.
This slow dialup connection has its advantages and disadvantages. I don’t like waiting for webpages to load and [...]
Today, telephone service was installed at the barn on “The Land In The Woods”, so after two weeks of disconnection from the Internet I am finally connected to the outside world again.
In a very SLOW fashion — I’m on regular dialup, and the phone lines to this location aren’t as good as in Nevada City, [...]
Last Thursday, James and I sat in our scorching hot living room in Bisbee and wondered why we were hanging out there. We have already done as much as we can in the preliminary phase of our move to California.
Over the past few weeks, we’ve packed a lot of our stuff and took a few [...]
I recently wrote the above title phrase in a comment on Hooky Beach’s blog, and it has stuck with me ever since.
The news is full of “unusually severe weather” stories these days. Excessive rain. Excessive heat. Tornadoes out of season.
A few years ago, I read T. Coraghessan Boyle’s book “A Friend of the Earth” (2000). [...]
All of a sudden, it seems that everything has gotten so much more sophisticated on the WorldWide Web.
Since James and I gave away our television to a thrift store in St. Louis in March of 2002 — we couldn’t STAND it anymore! — most of our news comes from the computer.
During most of [...]
It was a hot Bisbee Saturday night on the last day of June, as I sat down to play the harp in the salon.
For recording, I turned off the air-conditioner and opened the back screen door. The sound of crickets wafted gently to my ears.
I decided to lay down a track anyway; perhaps the little [...]
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