Highlands Holiday

We are happily home again from another July 4th weekend at our cottage in Highlands, NC. And in case you didn’t know, Highlands is a hamlet in Western North Carolina’s Appalachians, in the Nantahala National Forest. Established in the late nineteenth century, its resident population is quite small—just around 250 families or so—but because [...]

Morning Run 7.02.08

It is unusual for a July morning in the South to feel this crisp and dry. At the top of mile 3:

Excuse the awful cell phone camera resolution. And this, perhaps the best-ever moving company slogan:

Whilst contemplating all panics since the Civil War, I was also pondering this question: Why do SAB-trained [...]