April 13-19, 2010 Writing and Photography Workshop with Linda Watanabe McFerrin and featured local photographers … Charleston and the South Carolina Low Country beckons! Join the organizers of the Southern Sampler Artists Colony on a journey into a place like no other—a place brushed with spirit, dipped in belonging, and brought to life in Gospel,…
This trip was not about roughing it. On a previous trip to Costa Rica … Dixie and I had slogged through rain-soaked jungle and bounced over rutted, kidney-damaging roads, eschewing tours and overdeveloped beaches as a matter of principle. By the time the twin-engine Travel Air plane deposited us at an airstrip a few miles…
St. Patrick’s Day reminds me of a trip to Ireland with my favorite fiddler! We were at Maggie’s, a pub on Kiernan Street in Kilkenny, and the devil was panting at Anthony Macauley’s elbow, for the Irish lads were dueling it out with the musicians from Cornwall and the fiddles were smoking. The four musicians…
