Sassafras Mama

The backstory: Driving back to Clovis from the San Francisco airport on Tuesday afternoon tried the patience of a certain young man who was...

The backstory: Last Sunday afternoon, because Mother Nature was thwarting my plans to paint the porch, I turned on the telly to find a base...

I grew up in California's Central Valley, in a town called Clovis. Clovis is located snug at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains an...

I first noticed this phenomena when I moved to New Jersey six years ago: A lot of men around here seem to feel that shirts are optional clo...

When JT was first born and I had been home with the baby for a couple of weeks, there was a day when I was suddenly overwhelmed by the paren...

The backstory: It's Day 2 of our camping trip and after several hours of riding his bike around and around camp, JT decides to ride the...

Over the next few weeks, I will post pictures and reflections from my camping trip at Cape Cod. Below is the first of those postings. There...

There is a joke in the South that the house wine of a southern household is iced tea. And, in fact, I never have been in a southern househo...

One of the best parts of camping is the sheer volume of reading and writing that I get done. I started an amazingly long (1474 page) book a...

For me, camping is about the experience of a modified return to nature (and I mean a good and benevolent nature.....Rousseau's nature; n...