19
Jun
A Sensitive Time
Those are things you must get used to in New England, learning to be a tough tomato.
3 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.
10
Jun
Spring Cleaning
I am vulnerable to every link I come across leading me down another dark tunnel to a free weekly subscription.
3 min read
08
May
Liver Free or Die
I object to the narrow use we make of the animals that pay the ultimate sacrifice on the way to our table.
4 min read
23
Apr
Calmly on the Waters
Of all the animals we will share property with this summer, we are most attached to the loons. They are the only creature that does not bolt the instant they become aware of our presence.
3 min read
15
Apr
Total Eclipse
The memory of projecting light on the shirt cardboard stands out only because it was the same afternoon we were taken to see the play, Peter and the Wolf.
3 min read
27
Mar
Town Meeting
It is Town Meeting season, that time of year . . . for throwing a few punches at your neighbor over the cost of building a new school, apportioning land, and repairing roads so . . . people can . . . get to church.
3 min read
12
Mar
Moon Walk
I submit our Presidential candidates should be required to spend three nights around a campfire with a view of the sky as part of their spiritual journey to the office.
3 min read
20
Feb
Now We are Nearly to Spring
Every year, awakened by the Mourning Dove, I would be glad to stand in that spot for a minute or two.
3 min read
13
Feb
Artificial Intelligence
There will still be tasks available to us after AI has it under control. I feel confident about that at the end of a dirt road.
3 min read
24
Jan
Winter Enchantment
Imagine a place where the leaf action of a spindly plant at the edge of the woods can take center stage each morning out the kitchen window.
2 min read