Subsistence: Notes on Livelihood, Art, and Cultural Survival

"Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter." -...

I was driving down I-40 the other day thinking about house-trailers and old trucks and how such things relate (negatively) to bourgeois sens...

I read a few pieces recently about American soldiers in Afghanistan killing civilians and cutting off their fingers for trophies. This is ob...

Last weekend I attended the Lake Eden Arts Festival (LEAF) in Black Mountain, NC. Being there, amid all that creativity and expressive freed...

Last night I heard a whippoorwill's melancholic song issuing from the woods to the immediate east of our house. It is a rare occurrence ...

My family and I own a small "farm" in northern Davidson County, TN, just north of Nashville. Its situated in the relatively rugged...

In starting this blog, I can't help but wonder what compels us to share the quotidian realities of life with others? Solidarity I suppos...