According to City-Data.com, Sanford is a town of roughly 30,000. It doesn’t feel that big, though. A 15-minute walk from city center to the James House; the grocery store another ten minutes beyond. Depot Park, La Dolce Vita Pizzeria, Cafe 121, the Antique Mall … all my usual haunts, all within a three-block radius. And […]
Spend a few hours in Asheville and you’re bound to notice the hippies. Everywhere. Long hair, tie-dyed shirts, the whole enchilada. There’s a two-block stretch of storefronts on Lexington Avenue that looks for all the world like a chunk of Haight Ashbury, circa 1965. Admittedly, I have a weakness for flower children. To me, they […]
High up on my list of life’s simple pleasures is walking into town on a cool morning. Thank you, Vision 2025, for the West End. Thank you, Starbucks, for the mocha latte. Thank you, Pandora, for the Vince Guaraldi station that I’m playing now to drown out Starbucks’ ambient music. (Am I the only person […]
