by Stephanie | Jan 7, 2022 | Newsletter
Wood sculpture of a noisy crow, $150 The first thing I read this morning was an excerpt from an essay by Indian writer Arundhati Roy that a Facebook friend had posted. In “The Pandemic is a Portal” Roy contends that the changes wrought by this now two-year-long...
by Stephanie | Oct 29, 2021 | Newsletter
Baby Max stole a piece of pizza off his mom’s plate and stole off to a corner to devour it. His first pizza, and it seems he really likes it! Well, it’s that time of year again. It’s the time when we have to decide when to make the shift from Fall to...
by Stephanie | Oct 8, 2021 | Newsletter
Grrrr! It’s Max! An old friend and former Black Mountain resident came by Chifferobe yesterday. I was delighted to see him and we settled in for a chat. He was not wearing a mask, and I instructed him to mask up, which he did grudgingly. “Well, I suppose you are...
by Stephanie | Jul 4, 2014 | 44 Cherry Street, My Book
BIG News! So, first the bad news. Remember how I told you that I was going to open a booth at a new mall on Sweeten Creek Rd in Asheville? (After I said I was opening a second store in West Asheville?) Well both of those deals have not materialized. I learned about...
by Stephanie | Jun 26, 2014 | 44 Cherry Street, My Book
Chapter One 44 Cherry Street We endured a rough, cold winter here in the Swannanoa Valley, with the temperature veering from 50 degrees to 20 and back overnight. At times it was so cold that it killed even old stands of bamboo, which everyone knows are impossible to...
