Edgy Mama

Here’s the Mountain Xpress column where I write about my eat local week courtesy of the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association. As they say, it’s thousands of miles fresher!

I knew it was coming, I just didn’t know when.

The Asheville Disclaimer has lovingly spoofed Edgy Mama.

Here’s my fave graf:  “Edgy games like ‘Dodge the Angry Pitchforks’ and ‘Swimming Lessons in a Lake of Fire’ keep the kids in tip-top Edgy-shape. Nothing to hurt them, of course, but Camp Summerlane provides just enough Edge to scare them into looking forward to coming home at the end of summer.”

For those of you who don’t regularly read Mountain Xpress, Camp Summerlane was a supposed “free love” overnight camp that opened in Rosman, N.C. in 1963. It wasn’t around for long, as the town’s residents raided the camp in the middle of the night, because, God almighty, there could’ve been black folks  or even worse, nudity, there. Jon Elliston wrote a rocking four-part series telling the story.

I am honored, Asheville Disclaimers, to be so spoofed.

Unless you were the first one of your friends to have a baby, you’ve been here.

If you’re considering renovating or adding on to your house, you should read my column this week. I’m still breathing.

We’re back from family vacation number two.  And ready to be at home for a while.

Last week’s column was a round-up of fun and mostly free ways to entertain your kids in Asheville.

I also wrote this fun profile of local graphic novelist Hope Larson. Her new comic, Chiggers, hit stores a couple weeks ago. My 9-year-old loves the book!

I promise to blog something soon. I think.

Happy fourth of July yesterday!

Seems that all of my minimal creative summer energy leaches into my weekly column. So enjoy!

I’ll blog again some day. Happy solstice, June, and Independence Day!

I haven’t even had time to post a link to my column this week! Here it is, wishing everyone’s favorite plastic toy a happy 50th.

This week’s column is in memory of Edie Burke, a remarkable child. And in honor of my amazing community of neighbors and friends.

Last full day of school today for my kidlings. So summer’s here. Hurrah! I think. Here’s my Mt. X column talking bout it all.

What are your summer plans with kids?

This week I try to handle some sensitive reproductive questions from the kidlings in my column.

How have you handled these types of questions?