Through The Heart’s Entrance – Core Hollow
By the time Dody Dog sat up and collected his thoughts one morning, we had possessed our half-wild property for five years. It was originally part of an extinct farm, Core Hollow. After decades of abandonment, the place had been broken into two saleable parcels. In Dreams I return alone to that place, where the […]
DOWN AND DIRTY SURVIVAL
We Had a Privy at Core Hollow When people ask me about off-grid living at Core Hollow, the question will usually come down to: “Without plumbing, where did you go to the bathroom?” This question is usually asked as an embarrassed afterthought, but ‘going to the bathroom’ was simple. We had a privy at Core […]
The Strange Story of Dody Dog
It sounds strange that I would be writing a story about a farm dog on a blog called Goodlookinoldwomen. Yet, dogs are a major part of many women’s lives, aren’t they? Off-grid at Core Hollow, a dog provided serious assistance. But, Dody’s strange appearance did not start out at a special kennel with a request […]