Memorial Day 2020. A time when I reflect on the places I was and the posts that I wrote at this same time over the past seven years.
Last night we had plans. The first plans in weeks, we made a date to go have a picnic at Barton’s Cove, just as the sun was beginning to set and the light was at its most brilliant. We are starting to do more take out, last night we went […]
It’s been nine weeks of this total closure, people at home. Reflecting on travel to Italy in 2005 with my parents, a highlight.
One of the unexpected joys of the 2020 quarantine is the chance — no, the obligation–to keep in touch with people via these fun Zoom conference calls, or just on the phone.
Today’s date means the same lousy thing in any part of the U.S. and around the world. It’s a day in the midst of the famous pandemic
April 18, 2020 . Written during the height of the pandemic when everything possible is closed, no one is working and fear is all around us. We are deep into the thick of it now, April 18, 2020, this unexplainable, mutual pain that the entire world is facing. It’s nothing […]
A Man Who Shared His Thoughts and Told People What He Thought of Them Notebooks of my father. I have a bag of notebooks, journals by my father Nathaniel Hartshorne, that I’ve pored over and I hope to write about. This bag of notebooks, the collected journals of my father […]
Pandemics, who even ever thought that this would be what we would be afraid of? Not me. Not even in my fear radar. But ok ok, now we are coming up to the part where it’s a hockey stick curve, it’s going to be worse and worse this new few […]
Beavers are creating dams and have blocked the culvert that takes water across the Greenfield Community College driveway, it might overflow.
Lockdown! During the Covid 19 Coronavirus pandemic, I joined nearly everyone in the US during a lockdown where we all have to work at home.
Handwashing was never something important to doctors, until Dr Ignaz Semmelweis fought to convince the medical community that it spread germs
Trash: Some of the very clever companies who are using gasification to create fuels from trash, another company making products from garbage.