Fall is my favorite season. I go around at this time of year searching for signs that it is indeed on its way. This leaf proves that it is coming to my world. Other signs... College football takes up all day Saturday. We follow Duke, Tennessee, Nebraska, and Appalachian State University around here. Duke is …
Month: September 2018
When I can’t sleep…
When I can't go back to sleep, I get up and bake. Wide awake at 3:30 am this morning. Ugh. I will pay for that about 7:30 pm when I can't keep my eyes open. It doesn't happen often, but it can be because I've had a bad dream or I just wake up thinking …
Miss Spruce Pine
This is a look at Chalk Mountain, taken from the road between Spruce Pine and Bakersville. It's not the prettiest view, I suppose, but it is one I associate with home. I lived in those mountains for 22 years, 18 in Spruce Pine, 4 in Linville and Boone. I still tell people I am from …
Hurricane Florence
It's weird to sit around and wait for a hurricane to arrive. I think (hope?) that we are not going to see too much in Durham. But I can't stop watching the WRAL-TV news showing my neighbors to the east. New Bern, an old city in eastern North Carolina on the Neuse River I am …
the sabbatical chef 