Other Musings Winter Distemper I think the deep freeze we have been experiencing is making everything irritable
winter Frozen Irony is at work in global warming, tempting bluebirds north for the winter to be sandbagged by frigid temperatures.
Other Musings 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.
winter Deep Winter It has been a steady barrage of wind . . . the sort of wind that occupies your thoughts, and raises your voice.
Other Musings 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.
winter A Conversation With My Boots The boots are all business at these times, plodding forward like draft horses, saddled with crampons that grab the ice underfoot.
rural essays Tell Him Not to Feed the Bears But there he was, busy pulling, twisting, adjusting, exchanging one tool for another from his leather belt in an easy motion.
Other Musings Walking on Ice It is a superior feature of winter to be able to step onto a frozen pond or lake, and we have many of them. It is liberating.
Other Musings 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.
Other Musings Winter If you want the real deal when it comes to New England, you must come in winter.
