Dysfunction and Design
Cool but functionally useless Carbon Fiber Furniture I spent much of the day in front of my rarely used spanking new workstation and did what I really love to do…
The Autumnal Equinox
A Surprisingly Good Jazz Trio I’m home again for the weekend, and the suppressive heat and humidity are finally gone. If only it could stay just like this for a…
Natural Bridge, Virginia
Natural Bridge, Virginia – a 150 year old tourist trap! Given this creative slump that I am in, I thought it best to get outside and back to nature, as…
Lazy Weekend Two
Fans (overwhelmingly female) in awe at their Korean film stars at Pusan International Film Festival in 2006 Another wasted weekend with the high point watching the Packers lose (in a really…
Dreaming Forward
Gaeta, Italy 2008 - I took too much for granted while in Italy for nine months! It was another lazy weekend that slipped by too fast. I think that I…
A Noneventful Weekend at Potomac Beach
Just before heading back to Blacksburg, I took out the trash, and this it what I saw! I read somewhere about super-commuters - idiots that fly, train or drive insanely…
An Afternoon at Blacksburg Farmers Market
Sometimes it’s great to have a weekend with nothing planned and all the “stuff” that we feel compelled to do can wait until Monday. Better still - have such a…
The Long Space between the Life and Death of a Building in Appalachia
Buildings here in Appalachia never seem to disappear I discovered something this weekend – I am not really living in the Blue Ridge Mountain Area. I drive through it when…