"Non, je ne regrette rien" As I am writing this morning and listening to the songs of the "little sparrow" - Edith Piaf - my mind starts drifting back over my life. Can't think of a better place to reflect on life's 'regrets' than Turkey Hollow. With Spring encroa...

"Close only counts in horseshoes" goes the old country saying. Given this winter's constant and endless    brutality here in these hills, spring seems so close yet so far away. Starting about a week ago we ended up having another unpredicted storm with 16 inches of snow ove...

Successful "collectives" of any kind are rare in these days of the individual. One of the most successful in the nation is the Luceo Images collective of young photographers whose works normally wouldn't find a home in traditional journalism. This group of young photographers formed in...

-Don't you love the story in The Washington Post on J. Edgar "Mary" Hoover attempting to prove that former President Johnson staffer Jack Valenti was gay. Seems that in the 1960's, Valenti had the nerve to invite a closeted gay photographer to one of his parties in Texas. First of ...

Without a great deal of warning, winter hit hard again this week in Turkey Hollow. The forecasts called for a light dusting of snow. We should have known better. By morning we had five inches and the end of the day saw a good seven inches of snow and brutal cold. When I woke this morning the wind ch...

-Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 2 has gone hip on us! In a public appearance, she officially unveiled her new web site . Actually it is a site for the royal family of England and has links to you tube, virtual tours and if the Royals are coming to your neck of the woods. I had a great deal of fun on it...

Up here in the hills in the middle of a particularly brutal winter, my friends often ask "why in the hell are you living in such a frontier environment?" The snow, ice, well below zero temperatures, closed roads and often power failures do not exactly constitute the tropical atmosphere of ...

-So the White House is fighting an invasion of raccoons. Being no dummies, the persistent creatures have found good digs and the squatters are resisting any attempts at eviction. Marylouise Oates (photo), author of the best selling " The Second Home Book", has a tip for the White House Sta...

This winter has been harsh and brutal with heavy snow and frigid temperatures. Yet, in some sense the weather has been an escape. The white landscape has allowed us some refuge from what increasingly is becoming hard times for almost everyone. The "economic slowdown" has now become a "...

-Well, the KKK's worst nightmare just happened this week. With the naming of the new Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, both parties now are headed by African Americans. Maybe they can hope that Grand Wizard David Duke will make a comeback. Think your days are over fellows, s...