Following up on an earlier post about cabins… Some years ago, I saw that The Royal Institute of British Architects had an exhibit “Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture” which included a full-scale model of Le Corbusier’s Cabanon. That is a micro-cabin he built in Cap Martine on the French Riviera in 1952. He … Continue reading Cabins and Chapels
Readers of this blog will know that I have a long time longing to own a cabin in the woods. That longing probably started when I was a teen and read Walden and imagined myself a Thoreau in my little cabin in the woods writing something great. Over the years I have written here about … Continue reading Cabin Fever Dream
On a chilly night that opens December here in Paradelle, I catch the scent of wood fires in the air tonight and when I step into the front porch of my house I smell the pine branches my wife is soaking to make a wreath. It is not winter officially and the weather is still … Continue reading Building a Cabin in Paradelle
Oh, if only it was so… The article was titled “Build a Log Cabin for $100.” That would be a worthy summer project. It has been a fantasy of mine ever since I read Walden. An Oregon couple combined love of the land, native materials, traditional hand tools, and hard work to build a log … Continue reading Build a Log Cabin for $100
It’s post-vernal equinox. Are you feeling any symptoms of Spring Fever? Spring Fever is an interesting term for a phenomenon or pseudo-illness. It seems to have entered English in the mid-1800s. Linguistically, it is interesting because it has two meanings which are opposites. There is the term contronym to describe words that are also antonyms. … Continue reading Are You Feeling Any Spring or Cabin Fever?
You should not need an isolated cabin in the woods in order to write. And yet, many of us – writer and would-be writers – have probably fantasized about having an isolated place in the woods, a mountaintop or island retreat where we could go and find inspiration and peace. There is no good evidence … Continue reading You Should Not Need A Cabin To Be A Writer, But
Weekends in Paradelle 