SweetheARTS Exhibition
The Haywood County Arts Council is hosting a delightful exhibition this month of pieces created by couples who engage in artistic work. Each couple has also prepared a one-page story about how they met, fell in love, and, to date, lived happily and artistically ever after. Hence the clever title. We will launch the Exhibition [...]
The Tucson Atrocity
Like you I have been trying to get hold of my emotions and order my thoughts in the wake of the atrocity last week in Tucson. Indeed, it was not a tragedy, in which a well-intentioned person brings ruin upon him or herself by actions with unforeseen consequences. It was an atrocity – an attack [...]
Class Conflict and the Common Good
In the midst of the inanities of our present political discourse two terms continually return as my filters for the vapid media verbiage: “class conflict” and “common good.” First, “class conflict.” In spite of how much politicians and commentators want to avoid the term, it is clear that we are in the midst of an [...]

Red Clay, Blood River