A bit more about me
David here… Thanks to having a rare surname, I was able to purchase “my” domain when I thought it might be a good idea to learn how to put up basic websites.
I don’t have commercial ambitions for “davidfellerath.com,” although I hope to use it as a place to keep and share photo albums. Perhaps I’ll eventually use it to post some of my writings on film and soccer.
Above: Me and Katja, July 2011. This photo was taken late in the Nordic evening on a passenger ferry traveling from Turku, Finland to Stockholm, Sweden.
Want to see some honeymoon photos?
Want to see some photos of our European walkabout of 2014? (Coming soon.)
Hi David,
Just read your piece in the Post and saw that you are from NC. I am as well, raised on the coast in Beaufort but moved to Cullowhee when my wife and I got married and spent 17 very happy years there, often going to Asheville for fun and games and concerts. I have not lived in NC for 25 years as I am active duty and stationed in the SW working with tribes, a wonderful blessing in my life.
I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your piece and agreed with every word. My relatives were all hunters and my son and daughter-in-law feed themselves and my granddaughters by hunting, fishing and raising a huge garden. I have nothing against long guns but despise handguns for the same reasons you stated.
My main reason for writing you though (and this is the only forum I could find as I am not a tweeter or facebooker, too much time required) is to say how pleased I was to read something from NC that did not break my heart or make me furious. I am so demoralized by the direction of the state’s elected loonies that I recently switched my state of residence to where I live as I simply could not continue to send my tax dollars to a state that I no longer recognize. I had always thought I would return at the end of my career but I don’t think so anymore; it certainly is not the NC I have loved all of my 64 years. I will always be a Tar Heel in my heart but can no longer abide what is happening there. Thanks for writing something I could be proud of and heartily agree with.