Erika Howsare has been a C-VILLE contributor since 2002. Her first nonfiction book is The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors (2024), and she hosted a podcast miniseries called “If You See a Deer.” She teaches writing locally.
An author explains where Madison came up with the wacky idea of saving trees.
Today I officially started feeling swamped with great upcoming classes, talks, and screenings.
Don’t sweat the small stuff; House Republicans are pumping up the landfill.
They may steal our kitchen scraps, but we’re still glad to have them.
It was love at first sight. Until the day Mark Hampton and Jay Alexander first laid eyes on a house built by Charlottesville design-build company Latitude 38, they thought they were looking to buy an older dwelling —maybe a 1930s bungalow. One look at the Latitude house changed their minds. “We went from wanting old […]
How do you handle asking a neighbor about their growing practices?
What have you noticed, in the great outdoors or around your house, that tells you winter’s ending?
An energy-saving scheme puts the "moveable" back in "moveable coop."