slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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It’s been a little over a week since I returned from my latest visit to John C. Campbell Folk School. This was my second class with environmental artist Bryant Holsenbeck and my first class with her co-teacher, paper sculptor Nicole Uzzell. It was one of the most exciting and fulfilling classes I have ever taken.…
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I’ve needed to go to the lake since mid June. It’s the place I am drawn to when my heart needs healing. Usually I need a few days by myself, but Sandy knows to give me my space when we are there. With Diego’s short life prognosis and Pablocito suddenly being the only mammal at…
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We haven’t been to the lake since April and will take a short trip down there with a couple of friends soon. We were going to go this past weekend and stay through the week, but between the heat wave and my reluctance to leave Pablocito alone for the first time in his life, we…
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Here I sit at the computer, with Pablocito in the chair next to me that I put there for Diego to use months ago. Otherwise he would have annoyed the hell out of me. Pablocito is very good at annoying the hell out of me as well, but he has been behaving much better in…
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Diego left this world about three weeks ago. Diego and Pablocito came to us as fosters suddenly after we visited PetSmart just before they closed on August 20, 2013. They had just been brought in from the animal shelter and never even made it to the cage in the adoption room. We brought them both…
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That…
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I really don’t know why I can’t get myself to catch up on my blog posting. The thing is that I love to look back on my travel posts, and I frequently refer to my search and category functions when I don’t remember a date or a name. You would think that with all the…
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On Saturday morning, the crowds were lining up at the Roman Baths and the Abbey. It was a bank holiday. We decided to skip seeing the Baths. At Square Grill House, I had smoked salmon benedict, and Susan and Lisa had a full English breakfast. I think that was the only time any of us…
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We had learned our lesson about taxis in Cornwall and booked Annie’s Taxi ahead of time to take us back to the train station at Bodmin Parkway. I mean, yes, a bus was an option back and forth to Port Isaac, but it was a two hour ride compared to a 30 minute ride in…
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Another day of chilly weather, but I’ll take that over heat any day. For lunch, we returned to the Mote Inn, which is in a building that dates back to 1547. There I had the St. Austell mussels, which are topped with a kind of seaweed called samphire, which looks a bit like asparagus. And…
slowly she turned 