by D. L. Koontz | May 27, 2014 | Journal, Life Ever-Changing, Life of a Writer, Sense and Nonsense, Tripping Around the Blue Ridge
I live on one end of this road. The world, on the other. I love that separating me from (or bridging me to…A matter of perspective?) that world is a red dirt road. A path made of earth—clay, sand and gravel that groans and shifts as if irritated when my shoes or...
by D. L. Koontz | May 31, 2012 | Journal, Life of a Writer, Tripping Around the Blue Ridge
KABOOM! No, I didn’t hear that sound, but judging by the looks of my home in Georgia, there had to have been an explosion. In the past two weeks, I’ve slept in four locations along the Blue Ridge (homes in Marpennsylginia and southeast Georgia, a friend’s...
by D. L. Koontz | Apr 24, 2012 | Journal, Tripping Around the Blue Ridge
I journeyed the Blue Ridge from Georgia back to Marpennsylginia this past weekend. Unbeknownst to me, an email went out earlier declaring this past weekend as the date everyone over age 90 from the following states/provinces was to migrate back to the North for the...
by D. L. Koontz | Feb 6, 2012 | Journal, Life of a Writer, Tripping Around the Blue Ridge
When I tell my non-writer friends (NWF) that I sometimes drive eleven hours between Marpennsylginia and Georgia without ever turning on the radio, they cock their heads in wonder as though they’re trying to figure out this phenomenon. Their next question: “You travel...
by D. L. Koontz | Jan 27, 2012 | Journal, Sense and Nonsense, Tripping Around the Blue Ridge
Part II of II In Part I of this Betwixt and Between rumination, I discussed the confusion experienced by we folks living in Marpennsylginia (the mid-Atlantic), caught as we are between our efficient neighbors to the North and our charming neighbors to the South....
by D. L. Koontz | Jan 24, 2012 | Journal, Tripping Around the Blue Ridge
Part I of II I’m originally from the North, but I spend a lot of time with Just My Joe in the South. And yet, I live in that beautiful, confused and bewildered in-between area, the mid-Atlantic region. Or, as I call it, Marpennsylginia. We’re confused and...