We’ve began a three month family plan: a checklist for hitting the road in a travel camper come spring, a bunch of paintings and enough CDs to sprinkle around for gas money and electric hookup. No, not really. I’m afraid the plan is going to be a little more boring. Like putting together our taxes, [...] Continue Reading »
finding happiness in work: advice to the younger me
2all this stubbornness in the room
2As a follow up to yesterday’s post, very quickly, I want to say that Ashley and I are doing better. The issues didn’t work out overnight, but we at least had an “I’m sorry, me too, and let’s agree to keep working on this,” sort of conversation. So the silence lifted, I fed the dog, [...] Continue Reading »
artist statement : artifacts of us
4This work explores the confusion, uncertainty, and simple delights of operating within the traditionally feminine roles of homemaker and motherhood. Both the content and process seek to quietly protest the meaninglessness our society attaches to domesticity. The soft pallet, wavering lines, home fabrics, playful decorative marks, rough waxy varnish and wispy cursive text asks for voice without [...] Continue Reading »
cleaning a good shotgun
1It was a bit elegant the way my dad would sit down on a Sunday morning in our burgundy leather recliner, his church shoes on his knee and an old can of shine, a horsehair brush, and a t shirt rag kept in a ziploc bag. And I’ve seen Pappaw do the same thing. Guns were treated [...] Continue Reading »
south dakota in photos
1I got back in the truck a few days ago to find a water bottle knocked over and spilled on my phone. There is my excuse for the absence. I’ve just went over the pictures from the trip a little bit while Ashley and Addair slept. The depressing fact is that a lot of the [...] Continue Reading »
on the benefits of beating one’s chest
4Where 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 »
resume going slowly
2It’s Friday. Even if that means nothing to your schedule, pretend it does. Put it in a solid, quit, and leave it. Tonight, do something you don’t have time to do. Ignore the messy house. Do something for old time’ sake. Get a little reckless (and by that I mean splurge, not go home with [...] Continue Reading »
dandy paint review: Sherwin Williams “Emerald”
5We’re painting a new addition up the street on Glenwood. The homeowner has taken several measures in the project to obtain LEED credits and it seemed like a good time to try the new Sherwin Williams “Emerald.” Emerald is a true zero VOC paint. VOCs are the nasty things emitted into the air as paint [...] Continue Reading »
Aisenbrey embarks
0This morning we at NRFH would like to give a warm sendoff to our good friend Daniel Aisenbrey who is at this moment probably meeting a few folks at Java to get the caffeine levels high for his solo North American adventure. Daniel is taking on about 7000 miles of road over the next [...] Continue Reading »
yes this is real
0I talked to a man about a dishwasher on Craigslist this afternoon and made a dash out to Seymour to check it out, but that’s beside the point and maybe a different story altogether. The Henley Bridge is out, as all Knoxvillians know, and going to South Knoxville is something you have to be intentional [...] Continue Reading »