Ode to the Cypress Grill: a place in time
The Cypress Grill near Jamesville, NC, before it burnt down.
Yearning for the open water
These boats yearn for the open water. Don’t we all?
Steadying ourselves
My mother, Phyllis Gwendolyn Bolling Williams, has been gardening since she was a small girl. At 87, she still finds a way to tend to the earth and coax beauty and nutrition from small patches of ground.
“I know what it’s like to be free and I know what it’s like to be encaged.” Dexter Romweber
When I saw Romweber in 2015 I wasn’t sure how much of his shtick was harmless stage antics, and how much of it was ‘honest-to-god I’m falling apart before your very eyes folks’ reality.