05
May
Burn, Drag, Split, Stack
A pile of wood—branches and brush, or full-grown timber—imposes its presence. It can stop a truck.
2 min read
Monadnock
07
Mar
To Explain
The very branches where fathers courted mothers, and later supervised the first flight of youngsters, will be gone.
4 min read
21
Oct
Holiday Megalopolis
It is within the power of marketing to transform any inherently good and joyful thing into one of those over-muscled people, wearing a Speedo.
3 min read
07
Jun
Eat, or be Eaten
I am all about live and let live these days, with one—well, two—current exceptions: ticks, and mosquitos.
4 min read
01
Mar
800 Words on Maple Syrup and Wiper Fluid
You may be thinking, is he really postcarding about washer fluid behavior?
3 min read
24
Jan
Our Town
I kept thinking . . . all these people are paying what it costs to buy food for a week to hear what Mr. Wilder can share with them about life . . . . in our small corner of the world.
2 min read
30
Nov
November
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November scored first this season with one power outage, one tree
3 min read
31
Aug
Labor Day Weekend. Already.
The steps to our hillside garden are not repaired. The felled wood is not all cut up and stacked. The dock is still waiting to be treated with teak oil.
4 min read
17
Jul
Summer People
The July and August people have arrived, bringing with them their patronage of our stores and their vehicles, requiring me to look both ways before pulling out of the driveway.
3 min read
01
Jun
June
Huckles has developed a problem: he visits the neighbors.
4 min read