Nonfiction

We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.

– Pema Chodron

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Essays

Pandemic Art Studio Photo Essay #4, art and cake, January 2021

“Where Are We Going After This?,” Barely South Review, Spring 2019

“A Writing Manifesto,” Bite My Manifesto, 31 Dec. 2012

7 Deadly Sins of the Writing Life: Essay series at Hunger Mountain, Fall 2012

• Introduction
• Envy by co-author Suzanne Farrell Smith
• Sloth
  Lust by co-author Suzanne Farrell Smith
• Gluttony
  Greed by co-author Suzanne Farrell Smith
• Wrath by co-author Suzanne Farrell Smith
• Pride
  

“What It’s Like Living Here,” Numero Cinq Magazine, February 2011

Articles

“Studio In A Suitcase,” Vermont College of Fine Arts Newsletter, Winter 2012

“Modern and Made by Hand,” Architects + Artisans, 20 Dec. 2010

“Painting to Create a Community,” Architects + Artisans, 10 Dec. 2010

“Ali Cavenaugh and the Female Form,” Architects + Artisans, 22 Nov. 2010

“A Vanishing Oasis at City’s Edge,” w. J. Michael Welton, Architects + Artisans, 15 Nov. 2010

“Carolina’s Vanishing Tobacco Barns,” w. J. Michael Welton, Architects + Artisans, 01 Nov. 2010

“A Life in Landscape Architecture,” w. J. Michael Welton, Architects + Artisans, 26 Oct. 2010

“Ligon Flynn, FAIA, 1931-2010,” Architects + Artisans, 25 Oct. 2010

“Art as Life Journey,” Architects + Artisans, 20 Oct. 2010

“In Asheville, Sketching in 3-D,” Architects + Artisans, 19 Oct. 2010