September 2012

Note to self: when going on television, wear something with a lapel or a pocket, or both.

I checked my watch before heading into the coffee shop. I have 20 minutes before class, I thought to myself. Plenty of time – it's just across the street.

We've become so disconnected in time from the Civil War that in our minds it becomes another historical era, nothing personal, nothing human.

I am thankful today for salt and a potato.

I’ve been away from this page a little while, and am returning to it with an odd image, I realize – not a picture of mountain ridges, but of other shades of blue, from across two states, at the edge of another deep and ancient landscape.