This is where I am happy. It took me years to find the convent. The nuns never said I had a sister. My father never mentioned it. No one is suddenly your sister.
Sisters happen gradually.
It is the largest concentration of public lands east of the Mississippi and home to an astonishing diversity of plant and animal life. But as the most extensive natural area in the increasingly populous Southeast, the Blue Ridge ecosystem faces unique challenges in the next decades. A tough word to get your tongue around. I choked on it the first time I heard it used in the same sentence as my name. And time, the one thing I had plenty of, didn't help.