“Where are you right now? Where are you going next?” I answer these questions a lot from friends and family. I’ve had to answer them moreso lately because I haven’t written a lot of posts the last couple months so people are starting to wonder what it is I’m up to. If you didn’t get…
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Abbondanza
“I’ll just go call Grandma,” I said to my instructor. I was in my Genealogy class at the John C. Campbell Folk School where I had one major advantage over all my classmates: I was the only student who had a grandmother still living. This is probably because I was the youngest student in the…
Will I Ever Be Too Old?
When talking with my grandmother this morning about my trip to Italy she said, “I’d love to go, but you know I can’t. I’m too scared. At this age, you never know what can happen.” I had to laugh. “You never know what could happen at any age!” I said. To her credit, she’s 87. …
A Day In The Life: Sunday
Some time ago, I shared what life was like as a host at the John C. Campbell Folk School. To do that, I picked one day (Tuesday) and wrote what our job entails. Today I’m going to tell you about Sundays. The nice thing about Sunday is that our lives are not dictated by the…
The Camino: In the Movies and on TV
“You’re doing what in Spain?” people ask when I first mention the Camino de Santiago. Most Americans I talk to have never heard of it. “It’s a pilgrimage walk through Northern Spain,” I explain. Well, my poor explanation got some help recently. Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez have created a movie about the Camino called…
Students and Teachers
“So what did you think of blacksmithing?” friends ask. “I loved it,” I say. “Though it was one of those classes I could have loved or hated based solely on the teacher. Thankfully, I had a really good teacher.” In my ten weeks here at the Folk School, I haven’t just been studying blacksmithing, or…
A New Use for our Garden Shed
Last month, I took Tom Dahaney’s Building a Garden Shed class. In five days, we accomplished quite a bit. What was left undone, we were told, would be completed by the Work Study students with the help of the maintenance department. On Saturday night, I had the pleasure of attending a wedding here on the…
Rocking Chairs
Beth and I went to sit down on the porch, overlooking the mountains. She took one rocking chair, I took another. “Oh – this is the one I don’t like,” I said as I got up and moved to another chair. Beth looked at the chair I had vacated and said, “Yeah, I don’t…
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