I've been a carpenter, brewer, teacher and back-porch guitar picker, these last two still pretty avidly. I grew up in the Piedmont of North Carolina and also spent 18 years up in the hills around ...lihat lebih banyakI've been a carpenter, brewer, teacher and back-porch guitar picker, these last two still pretty avidly. I grew up in the Piedmont of North Carolina and also spent 18 years up in the hills around Asheville. I came to Asia on a 7.5 month contract, and that was 11 years ago. I now call Taiwan home. I’m still American though and I reckon I’m just taking the long way home.
If you long to change lives, yours or others, or are thinking hard about it, I’m here to tell you unequivocally, dive in head first, as the water in the deep end churns profundity. As a writer, I enjoy sharing the trials and joys of a beer brewer, a teacher, traveler, and adventurer- as in the end they vibrate as one.
For me, a boiling beer kettle and an icy mountain trout stream are akin, and bring solicitude, like listening to an old vinyl record you remember from your youth, talking to a dear friend, or walking a broken path in a medieval village, catching glimpses of the past’s shadows. My past is ever present in my memory, and to borrow the words of a great American troubadour, I’m walkin’ on the backroads, by the rivers of my memory, and for hours you’re just gentle on my mind…lihat lebih sedikit