Where I am from and where I live are two very different places and although I have just said that, I am already disagreeing with myself. It was a little subdivision within a small town where I didn’t know the covies of quail or spot deer from the deck, but we did have a good [...] Continue Reading »
on the benefits of beating one’s chest
4zeal without knowledge
3“It is not good to have zeal without knowledge, nor to be hasty and miss the way.” Proverbs 19:2 This was how the morning started, reading my daily Proverb (31 days, 31 chapters), and looking out at a cold morning as I built up the woodstove. I made coffee and watched my fire flicker [...] Continue Reading »
some heroes of the road
5Our upcoming adventure needs a model and some kind of basis. What we don’t want is to be living in a Walmart parking lot, our existence going down the gas tank, having become a family of bums who embarrassingly tote a flashy airstream up to McDonalds bathrooms. Sorry, a modern Kerouac is not the [...] Continue Reading »
the new truck saga part 2, a little about going on foot, and a bit of unfolding news
0Let me recap from the other night. On New Years Eve I went looking for a truck down the airport motor mile on the Alcoa Highway. After recent months of investigating, I knew exactly the truck I needed. When I walked onto about the third lot I saw it exactly. It was love. I turned [...] Continue Reading »
Tazewell, VA: a baby shower, sneaking down a mine, uncle Dobb surprises Grandmother with Pappaw’s WWII Medals
3Little baby Addair had his second baby shower this past weekend with Ashley’s side of the family. I think he has everything he needs, actually more than I ever imagined was necessary for babies. I changed my first diaper, on a doll, and lost in a race against Ashley. Keith won the bottle drinking contest [...] Continue Reading »
This is a test
4This is a test. It is only a test, I am blogging from my phone and contemplating a big idea. At the moment I’m picking up odd jobs and between my neighborhood’s Facebook page for Old North Knoxville and my church classifieds at All Souls Knoxville, I couldn’t be busier. Scraping old paint and landscaping. [...] Continue Reading »
to the doers of good work. keep it up.
0Good afternoon. It is time at noroomforhipsters that we address an issue, one that we hint at, and one that is obvious around here. The belts are tightened, we’ve pawned the jewels, and creditors will begin calling. I’m proud of the time it took us to reach this place, we really made the system work [...] Continue Reading »
an old north knoxville utopia, the consumption, and why i grow tomatoes
0My brother gave me a 55 gallon drum last summer. He made an excellent compost bin with one, it hangs sideways between two posts and spins so you don’t have to stir, then dumps right into a wheel barrel. I’m making a rain barrel out of mine. To do that, it took me a year [...] Continue Reading »
i must have got hit by a car this morning, or bit by a rabid dog last week
0I waited until I heard the birds to get up. This is the part where I write out everything wrestling in my mind and then either hit publish or delete. On the file cabinet across the room is a completed packet to give DHS and sign up for Tenn Care. We’ve already met and are [...] Continue Reading »
a laundry line is good for transparency
1We sold the dryer a while back to raise capital, before the NYC spanking debacle. And since then we only do laundry on sunny days. The free standing rack we got at IKEA can’t always hold the weight when a sunny day coincides with the initiative to tackle the laundry heap. Usually we have to [...] Continue Reading »