May 17, 2020: Lights at the End of the Grim Tunnel
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 […]
May 10, 2020: Getting More Adjusted to This
It’s been nine weeks of this total closure, people at home. Reflecting on travel to Italy in 2005 with my parents, a highlight.
Disappointing Myself During the Quarantine
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.
April 26, 2020: Irrigation Hoses Going into the Garden
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: More than a Month into the 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 […]
Dad’s Journal Notebooks Keep Sucking Me In
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 […]
Pandemic Journal: Week Four, a Walk in the NH Woods
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 […]
Beaver Blockade at GCC
Beavers are creating dams and have blocked the culvert that takes water across the Greenfield Community College driveway, it might overflow.
Life During the Almost Lockdown
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: Semmelweis Was a Doctor Ahead of His Time
Handwashing was never something important to doctors, until Dr Ignaz Semmelweis fought to convince the medical community that it spread germs
Gasification and Making Things From Trash
Trash: Some of the very clever companies who are using gasification to create fuels from trash, another company making products from garbage.
This Terrible Age Is About to Get Worse
We are in the thick of it, the beginning of the hockey stick statistic….its about to blow up. Italy, up to 250 more cases today from yesterday, and this means it will get worse next week. This whole terrifying episode in history will scar us for years. Today on TV, […]
Life in the Age of Cholera, er, Coronavirus
Coronavirus has made the entire world nervous, anxious and feeling dread. That’s because no one knows what will happen, as the markets reel.
Storytellers Gather at Luthiers
Storytelling at Luthier’s Coop in Easthampton, a group of storytellers gathered to share some funny, poignant, and sad stories about life.
Skating Has Always Been in my Blood
Skating has been in my blood since I was a small child learning to skate on the Institute Lake, where each winter Dr. Martin checked the ice.
Green Space Co-Work: My Place to Go
Co-work in Greenfield. After nine long years wishing I had a place that I could go to work besides my basement office, I’m here & happy.
NY Times Travel Show: Twelve Years with the Travel Tribe
Travel Tribe: I’ve spent twelve years joining my favorite travel people in New York City every January, speaking at the NY Times Travel Show.
Talking About Travel Writing to People Who Don’t Write
At the Travel and Adventure Show in Boston, I joined Paul Shoul to give a presentation about travel writing and photography.