Writer, Blogger, Creative Enthusiast
The Acorns (and a Six-Part Epilogue)
IT'S HARD NOT to notice, the way they line the path from the house to the studio, the way they've dropped this year by the thousands. They way they dwarf the lookalike versions that now pave our long mountain driveway. They've come from the Mother Tree, this I should...
Trust, and the Creative Process.
ALL THOSE MONTHS AGO, when the first phase of the pandemic hit, Tim and I packed up our lives and our SUV and headed for the mountains to "ride things out." I look at that time now as both lovely and terribly confusing; we were remote thus comparatively safe, and yet...
Going Gray.
IT SLAP WORE ME OUT, the time, attention and investment required to maintain my "natural" brown hair. Ten days of beautiful salon color then BOOM Day Eleven it appeared: my part already sprouting a strong new crop of gray. It was not pretty, this skunky look, and the...
Cathy Rigg
Cathy Rigg Monetti is a writer and maker with far more interests than she has time. Born and raised in Virginia’s Appalachian Mountains, she is currently writing a novel, a work of historical fiction set there and centered around five people whose lives intersect during the tumultuous years of the Civil War.
