Marching Through It
It’s a super chilly early March day out there, the kind of day when you’d much rather put another log on the fire than go outside, I want to walk but….come on, too cold. Hoping it warms up soon. I like this photo I captured of a tiny girl walking […]
Vaccination Brings a Sense of Relief as We Finish a Covid Year
Vaccination: My village had a vaccination clinic manned by local volunteers and the select board, after a year of this and I can’t wait for it to be over.
Saturday Musings Over the Years
Saturday musings, looking back at the many times I’ve written about Saturday on my blog.
Rangeley Inn Maine: Not The Same This Year
Rangeley Inn, in Western Maine, is home to some of the best snowmobiling trails and skiing in two resorts. An account of a driving trip over back roads.
Skiing with Sofie at Sugarloaf and Saddleback
Skiing next week: Sofie my granddaughter and I will drive 5 hours north to Maine to ski at the huge mountains there–Sugarloaf USA and Saddleback.
Extraordinary Megaprojects Worldwide in 2021
Around the world, huge megaprojects bigger than anything before are continuing to move ahead.
Electric Vehicle Charging While Going 60
I read a story in the WSJ about an interesting twist on a popular topic, charging electric vehicles, using sensors in the road to power while running.
Trying to Make the Molding Fit in My Old House
My kitchen remodeling project hits snags when we once again realize that the house walls are never very straight and putting molding is tough.
Vaccine Dreams and a New Kitchen for 2021
The vaccine to rid us all of the dreaded COVID has been administered, my daughter Kate has had the jab and hundreds more shots are being given out every day.
Good Riddance to 2020
Good riddance to a terrible year when the Pandemic kept the whole world from traveling and enjoying things like hugs, sharing meals and crossing borders.
May 25, 2020: Ten Years of Memorial Day Memories
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.
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 […]