Summer’s End and Autumn’s Start in 2026. The mornings are beginning to be cooler. The cucumber vines have wilted, and the last beans have dried up. A few of the trees begin to have shades of yellow or brown. We often get drawn outdoors before sunset to water the few remaining blooming plants and to…
Our Writer’s Den stays busy nearly every day, but we are not the kinds of authors that write words like fields are doused with a summer thundershower. Writing takes time, stops and starts, creative periods interlaced with chugging through publishing tasks, and those wonderful creation breaks on the GateWay property. The breaks are what we…
We never intended to live in a standard home again. Having left Virginia shortly after we were married in 2017, a 500 square foot cabin became our US home in West Virginia. The property on which it sat was owned by a daughter and son-in-law. Our frequent trips overseas seemed to be leading us to…