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FRED FIRST: The Reading Bench

The Stories A Picture Might Tell I showed you the featured image here in an earlier post this week explaining the Flash Fiction challenge by the Columbia Chapter of the Missouri...

FRED FIRST: A Story In The Frame

Over my entire writing life an image has often been central to the tale. Post...

FRED FIRST: The Wandering Year

Soon I will end this elder-travelogue that began in November of 2023 and which I...

FRED FIRST: Migrations – Navigating The Landmarks

As the late-August move date approached, I told myself that we should expect the first...

FRED FIRST: Rehoming Week Three

It is a mile around the central campusThree weeks and still standing. Actually more often...

Water Wealth: Our Blue Gold

Will there be enough to go around in tomorrow’s world? How to have adequate water for all who need it on the global scale...

Garden Debriefing: Some Wins, Some Losses, and Lessons Learned

Last night’s hard freeze in mid-October abruptly ended our hope that we might watch our visiting grand-daughters pick the last of this summer’s green...

Think Globally, Celebrate Locally: Floyd’s Sustainability Festival

The first community project for the new southwest Virginia grassroots organization, SustainFloyd, was to organize a local action towards Bill McKibben’s global efforts to...

Handing Off the Future: What Will We Leave Behind?

I lift two heavy buckets of green beans fresh from the garden up onto the kitchen sink. The knees of my old worn khakis are...

Small Gestures Carry Big Message

It was only after we moved from the big city of Birmingham to the small town of Wytheville in the mid 70s that I...

A Perfect Memory? I’d Probably Just Say No

Lately I’ve been thinking about memory--not because I have new concerns about forgetting to put on my pants or pick up the milk in...