Here I begin to share my experiences as a critical explorer of contemporary country music, once again searching for some rubies in the mire so you don’t have to get your feet muddy (in that Georgia clay).   A note: Popular country serves as a mirror for society  -a  Bud swilling, chaw chewing novel of manners.  It’s […]

  The diving board of the community swimming pool. On top of the stump of a tree that has fallen over sideways in a dry creek bed, the root system exposed: it is ten feet tall. The farthest back pew in a thickly carpeted protestant sanctuary with only the altar lights on; 8pm, a Wednesday. […]

Did you wonder: what is it like to work in the legal field?  How best to be prepared for the dangers and wonders that lurk there – beneath the vines and the mangrove roots, in the swamps and bogs, on the wide and rolling plains full of beasts and spirits?   Because working in a […]

Sometimes to open a door you need to lose a key, I managed to say before bursting into hysterics, after three visits to the Skidmore Bluffs in approximately 24 hours. From Colonel Summers Park we voyaged there for the inaugural visit. Our driver recounted a previous visit to the cliff-side grass patch months before in […]

Joryville Park Part of a life long series on the county parks of Oregon             How does one Get to the Park? On the Marion County parks website the directions to Joryville park are listed as:   14 miles out Liberty Road, then two miles to Jory Road, then one […]