Hello, food! Lo these many years ago when I turned 30 and freaked out, I made a life list, and it was full of items that involved eating. Here, as I approach 40 and feel pretty good about it, I am still into eating, and I’ve been making my happy fat way through some of…
alaska: books i read before and after
Race Across Alaska: First Woman to Win the Iditarod Tells Her Story – Libby Riddles: this is, of course, a classic read, set in a really interesting type style – Riddles tells her story in wide columns on the outside edges of the print book, and her co-writer provides technical information about the race in…
100 foods in 100 counties: guilford county
Guilford County – Greensboro – Jerusalem Market: the Armenian Wrap We finished our trip to Greensboro by checking off Our State Magazine’s food for Guilford County, the Armenian Wrap at Jerusalem Market, which has recently opened a second location S Elm Street. The wrap is listed as “Basterma (air dried beef tenderloin, covered in garlic…
atlas obscura: elsewhere collective
The Elsewhere Collective is a … museum, of sorts, in Greensboro, and was our second stop of the day on Saturday. Their website explains it better, but it was an amazing place for a photographer.
adventures at home: greensboro science center
With college football season coming up, I’m trying to make the most of Saturdays before then. This led us to the Greensboro Science Center this weekend, because I wanted to see their aquarium, and they had a zoo, and it wasn’t a thousand degrees out for once. The zoo is small but well laid out…
interview: tour de frank
Today is National Chili Dog Day, and I’m thrilled to share an interview with John Champlin, Wake Forest alum and fellow hot dog enthusiast. You can see his photographic adventures on Instagram @tourdefrank and check out his write ups of his most recent trip, the Feast on the East (Coast) at his blog. Below, he…
album review: carsie blanton – buck up
Do I remember how to review a record? Let’s find out. Josh Ritter put an album out this past April. Frank Turner has one out in August. I love Fever Breaks. I love the songs from No Man’s Land. It’s rare for one of those two songwriters to put out a record and not have…
life list: get a passport
93. Get a passport. I’d entirely forgotten I put this on my life list 9 years ago, but I finally got around to it this year. We even visited Canada! They didn’t look at our passports at all.
nswl soccer: reign fc @ nc courage
We put our post-World Cup money where our mouths were and drove out to Cary on Saturday night to see the 2nd place NC Courage take on the table-leading Reign FC. Both teams sent a bunch of players to the World Cup (including, of course, America’s Darling Megan Rapinoe for the Reign, and five from…
alaska and seattle: the details
You know me. I like the weird details.
brand new kind of photography 