Guest Author: Maurice Frank When not checking the signal strength on his phone, Maurice can be found socializing with groups or individual friends, walking and hiking, playing pickleball and softball, or in a YMCA. He is the leader of the Fika tribe (aka Coffee Meetup group) and has done some…
Guest Author: Anne Piervincenzi Anne has lived in Fairview, NC for 18 years and loves calling WNC home. She is very happy to have met Cheryl and some fellow scribblers (Asheville Women Writers Co-Op) at a coffee meetup, and is humbled to be included in their talented midst. (Note from…
Guest Author: Lee Reed Lee is a nurse who met one of her biggest life goals when she moved to the mountains. She is originally from Mississippi and has been in North Carolina since 1989. Lee is a member of the Asheville Women Writers Cooperative and has offered to help…
>———————————-< We know that we are mostly afraid of the unknown. We aren’t too keen on unpredictability. So, we have learned to cover our fear of these terrifying things by substituting legends and lore, fictional terrors with familiar qualities and habits we recognize as signals of danger. Our only problem…
_____^^^^^^_____ I found a dress in the back of my closet. It’s one of those cocktail party dresses I used to wear to family weddings and company Christmas parties at pricey hotels. I nudged aside a few boxes looking for the matching shoes back in the dark recesses of the…
==== 0 ==== Yes, it’s about cooking. It’s also about life. Savoring the flavors of living through food and the company that surrounds the sharing of meals and culture. I’m sitting here thinking of all the flavors I did not experience during the early years of my life and all…
My trip to Switzerland has been cancelled. Just kidding, I have no plans to go anywhere. It’s just not my thing. This year I have seen more friends than I can keep track of head overseas for long-awaited vacations. Some of them got COVID during their travels and were inconvenienced…
=====$$$===== It’s a fact that most of us have to pay our way for a decent life. I think this as I write a check to pay the electric bill. Will it be less next month because we had a power outage one day this month? I mull over the…
∞ ∞ ∞ ∞∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ▪ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ Now that I have reached my early late sixties, I am learning all about the vagarious nature of “getting up there!” Though I still feel like the least senior of senior citizens at this particular…
Let’s talk about plastic. Okay, I know your first instinct is to click that X in the upper right corner of your screen to avoid an environmental lecture and feeling guilty about your shampoo bottles, but hang in there with me if you want to become the world’s latest hero…