by Charity Singleton Craig | Nov 22, 2010 | Archived Blog Posts
While Ann and I were on our road trip to see and hear Wendell Berry, we were just outside of the Bloomington area when dusk settled over us and it got downright dark. I confessed to Ann right there in the car about how I’m afraid of driving after dark in the...
by Charity Singleton Craig | Aug 13, 2010 | Archived Blog Posts
About this time last year, I visited North Carolina for the first time. I didn’t go to the coast where I’ve heard things are touristy and trinkety. I went to the mountains, where people are just simple and scrappy.During my visit with friends, I attended a...
by Charity Singleton Craig | May 13, 2010 | Archived Blog Posts
Recently, as I reread Wendell Berry’s novel, Hannah Coulter, I was transported once again to a place I feel like I know–though it exists only in the imagination of the writer. If you asked me to describe Port William, Kentucky, the fictional town not only...
by Charity Singleton Craig | Jun 29, 2007 | Archived Blog Posts
Over on Seedlings in Stone, LL recently spoke of her blog as a living room where she invites people to come in, enjoy themselves, and enter into a conversation. She set some house rules, even invited us to bring our instruments for a little jam session, if it so...
by Charity Singleton Craig | May 2, 2007 | Archived Blog Posts
In chapter two of The Suburban Christian, Al Hsu discusses home ownership as both a surburban ideal and the perpetuater of individualism. In other words, people who move to the suburbs are looking for a place of their own where they can do their own thing. It’s...