Scribbling

This weekend my wife and I slipped off to spend a little time with friends of ours who have built a wonderful home just off the Blue Ridge Parkway near Sparta, NC.  The quilt is just one of about a hundred that were on display at the Quilt Festival.  I loved the colors –reminded me [...]

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Last Saturday night we caught the final performance of Godspell at the Open Space Cafe Theater in Greensboro.  A good friend had recommended this particular production to us with glowing terms; she found the musical very entertaining even though she admitted that she was a bit weak on the finer points of the New Testament [...]

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No, this isn’t a morality piece. While I prize my own ego, I am also cognizant of its divers of idiosyncrasies and peccadilloes, its riotous diversions and subversions, and, therefore, echo T S Eliot’s famous query in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, so how shall I presume?

This morning my garden awaits [...]

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As I stood in the shower preparing to go to a Greensboro Grasshopper’s baseball game, an odd flurry of metaphors sprung to my mind. I’ve been reading Robert Morgan’s excellent biography of Daniel Boone, aptly and simply entitled, Boone, A Biography. Somehow the fascination so many apparently share for Daniel Boone had eluded [...]

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Since the completion of Triad Park, which was made possible by the collaboration of the local governments of Guilford County and Forsyth County, my wife and I have managed to establish a fairly consistent routine of exercise by walking many of the paths and trails in the park. As soon as the change from [...]

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