In honor of the recent trip through the Deep South, some Southern thoughts on the sins that Easter forgives:

For a long time, when this blog was younger -- it's nine years old now -- we had a link section called "Admired Voices."  Will...

Grandfather Mountain Now, this week was an example of a man getting just exactly what he was asking for.  I said I was going to the ...

I have some internet access this afternoon.  It's been quite a trip, what with the unexpected storms all across the Carolinas.  I'l...

In case you've ever wondered what your garden could look like if you had 7 million tulip bulbs and ten months of the year to devote to ...

Holy Week: when, as Grim reminds us below, we remember how God faced down Death. . . . Love deep as the sea as a rose must wither, As the r...

Here's a site I'll be returning to often. If you look right now, you'll see it looks as though someone pulled a drain plug in ...

I will be gone to the Wild for a week, from Palm to Easter Sunday.  I will be traveling the Blue Ridge from the Nantahala to the George Wash...

It would be nice if we could find an alternative to the Hollywood system that keeps turning out these pieces of dross.  Amazon has apparentl...

I wonder how that will go? The dwarfs... teach the princess to believe in herself in a Rocky-esque training montage of swordplay and thugg...

Pankration was such a bloody sport that it had only two known rules: no eye-gouging and no biting. Aside from these restrictions, anything...

Apropos of our recent discussion on impenetrable scientific writing, this disguised admission from the IPCC's most recent Special Report...

Today marks the passage, at the fine age of eighty-eight, of bluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs .  Here is an old documentary film about himself...

Yesterday we rode over to the gardens , which lie just by the middle fork of the Oconee River .  Owned by the state of Georgia, it operates...

A gram of silver is currently worth about a dollar.  Thus a silver coin weighing about one and a half grams is worth about a buck and a half...

Justice Ginsburg today made some remarks suggesting that Congress would be unfairly treated if the entirety of the health-care law should b...

Maybe this is what's wrong with the Test . Am I allowed to say "wrong"? Or "anxiety"?

The most famous Crusader castle in the world is the scene of current fighting in the Syrian counterinsurgency.  It was known in its day as ...

In the early 9th century, Charlemagne's missionaries translated the Gospels into Old Saxon in order to aid the conversion of their conq...

How about a little rockabilly this morning? This next band appears to be Belgian , to judge from what I've been able to dig up on ...