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
Other Musings
Essays and creative non-fiction separate from the Postcard-from-Monadnock series. Many of them are from Jarvis's column, "Off the Highway", which has appeared bi-weekly in the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, since 2022.
21
Apr
Grits Just Come
"Even if you don’t order them, grits just come. Same with email. Email just comes."
3 min read
16
Apr
Bridge Out
I think we should not build any additional bridges until after the next epoch, whatever that is. Maybe after the next ice age.
2 min read
24
Mar
How Was Your Winter?
Huckleberry and I hiked out to the secluded Shattuck Pond last week, which is about a mile from our back
3 min read
10
Mar
March Madness
I have always questioned the virtue of awarding an extra hour of evening daylight to March. I feel sure the
3 min read
25
Feb
Too Bad You missed It
And, thus, in those few minutes, I was possibly as comfortable, and at rest, as I had been in fifty years.
2 min read
09
Feb
Winter Distemper
I think the deep freeze we have been experiencing is making everything irritable
3 min read
27
Jan
Report from the Outside World
Except for those sanctuaries we have discovered along the way, we drove two thousand miles through an unimaginative, impersonal wasteland.
2 min read
29
Dec
What’s in Your Pocket?
What are you thankful for, I asked? What travels with you?
3 min read
16
Dec
Gripped by Vortex
It is the season when I feel the undertow of email offers, direct mail catalogues, and the bombast of television commercials. They won’t get me.
2 min read