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.
It’ll be a busy couple of weeks for those of us trying to green up our brains.
We beat Asheville! We beat Jacksonville! We beat friggin’ Bowling Green!
Charlottesville and Albemarle are the winners of a $500,000 grant competition run by the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance.
Your latest round of reading suggestions, in honor of last night’s salad.
At the Wilderness, Wal-Mart holds the reins. They should take the opportunity to pull out.
I love all the wildlife we have out in the country. But can I love these creatures too?
People who are buying houses have plenty to think about. There’s the matter of how much to offer and what type of mortgage to take out. There’s the need to get a home inspection and consider whether any problems —leaky roof, sagging porch—are worth asking the sellers to fix before closing. You have to arrange to move from wherever you’re living; you have to get termite, water and septic tests; you have to deal with title companies and insurance companies and interest rates and points. And all this comes after the decisions about who your agent will be and, of course, which property you want to buy.
One of the great things about being an architect, it seems—aside from the chance to design one’s own dwelling—is the ability to discuss that dwelling in all kinds of interesting terms. A courtyard is enclosed by one of three L-shaped concrete walls that form the structure of Parcel X, Peter and Nancy Waldman’s North Garden […]