The photo is one that I took with my phone. Acadia curled up in the crook of my arm while I’m sprawled on the sofa. The laptop that’s resting on my stomach is just out of frame. As per the ritual, she’s taken my interest in a thing – the laptop – as her cue to stand between me and it, her butt squarely […]
When I left my last salary-with-benefits position in 1999, I didn’t know that I was joining forever what one day would be called the “gig economy.” I thought of myself as a freelance, a Mad Max-style survivor of the Tech Bubble implosion, swimming clear-eyed against a tide of delusional “company loyalty” types. It was pretty romantic. Now the tide is with me. I’m one of the […]
A vendor at the Saturday market sells surprisingly good muscadines and scuppernongs, but this week, the muscadines were missing. “Is muscadine season over?” I asked. “No, but the sugar wasn’t quite right for them this week,” he said. “We’ll have them again next week, and on up through Halloween.” To review: This farmer monitors the sugar content […]
