Donna Akers

09/11/2026

Sure do love that young guys are investing in older Ford trucks! Riley has been promised my dad's red F-150 from the 1980s.

09/11/2026

They worked to get people out of the north tower as debris and bodies rained down. Then, they heard the groaning of steel.

09/05/2026

August 2026 was busy, hot, and full of fun with friends and family. From Boone to Durham to Asheville to Madison, WI, I covered lots of territory.

08/31/2026

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08/13/2026

Recently, I became re-interested in the French poet, Charles Baudelaire and his poetry. Here's a favorite. What do you think?

"They are alike, prim scholar and perfervid lover:
When comes the season of decay, they both decide
Upon sweet, husky cats to be the household pride;
Cats choose, like them, to sit, and like them, shudder.

Like partisans of carnal dalliance and science,
They search for silence and the shadowings of dread;

Like partisans of carnal dalliance and science,
They search for silence and the shadowings of dread;
Hell well might harness them as horses for the dead,
If it could bend their native proudness in compliance.

In reverie they emulate the noble mood
Of giant sphinxes stretched in depths of solitude
Who seem to slumber in a never-ending dream;

Within their fertile loins a sparkling magic lies;
Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam,
Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes."

Charles Baudelaire

08/03/2026

08/03/2026

Mt. Mitchell, highest peak east of the Mississippi River. Diamond of the Blue Ridge Parkway.