From The Bitter Southerner

  Honestly. I'm just not doing all that well. Vicki Lane posted this at her blog and it spoke to me  - May you grow still enough to hea...

  Donald helped me bring in a few Christmas boxes from the storage building today. Yes, I know, it's a little early. And, truth be told,...

  Yes, these are hard days.   We're witnessing the meanest, the ugliest, most hateful of men making a grab for our country for purely se...

 

 Donald and Annabelle and I are back home in The North Carolina High Country after a week in the South Carolina Low Country. It was a much n...

  'Some days you have to turn off the news and listen to the bird or truck or the neighbor screaming out her life. You have to close all...

This is personal. I live in Western North Carolina. I see, every day, what Hurricane Helene left behind. And I've seen the people who ha...

Today I am going to, as much as I'm able, tune-out. Tune out Helene and the destruction she has left behind. Tune out Trump whose pure e...