Woke up to a blue morning. The mountains were purple and the sky was lightening slowly from Bible black to deep blue before settling back to white. It has been a good winter with plentiful…
Winter makes us smug in the north country. We have long dark months of unrelenting cold, snow drifts taller than our cars, and that piercing cold sunshine that offers no heat. The icicles that hang…
A weird thing happened this January. The snow melted. We had a run of fifty-degree days and those wonderful piles of snow just faded away into a few white patches here and there. We’d had…
I am a storyteller. In theory I own a development agency and we raise money for worthy charities and non-profits. That’s the view from outside. But the real thing we do is to help these…
January seems to really mean it this time. We have had two blizzards already this year and when I woke up this morning the thermometer said -8. This is getting serious. We keep setting records….
We spent the whole day, really most of the weekend reading dumb books and watching silly movies. Hannah is deep into the vampire series that all the young girls are reading. I was reading a…