A Visit to the MFA

by | Nov 8, 2017 | Living in Place

On Monday, after a weekend when both Tim and I worked, we drove to Boston and visited the MFA. Tim drove while I read him another installment of Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, by Kory Stamper, a book that continues to delight us in its erudition and...

What I Saw on My Artist’s Date

by | Nov 7, 2017 | Living in Place

It was completely irresponsible to drive to Boston and spend the Monday of a packed week at the Museum of Fine Arts, but that’s just what I did yesterday.   My husband had the day off after a week of being on-call at the hospital, and at first I couched the...

Yesterday in the Woods

by | Nov 1, 2017 | Living in Place

I spent yesterday in the woods with Rob, a landowner not only willing to let me hunt on his land, but happy to show me around. Despite my resolve to spend more time outdoors and off-trail this past year, I haven’t been out as much as I’d hoped, for all the usual...
Deer in the Woods

Deer in the Woods

by | Oct 25, 2017 | Living in Place

I attended “Deer in the Woods,” a program about the synergy between the deer population and the forest in Windham County, sponsored by the Dummerston Conservation Committee. The program began with opening statements from the four panelists: George Weir, a consulting...

Advice From Famous Writers: Less is More

by | Oct 23, 2017 | Living in Place

I’ve just finished cutting 40,000 words from a 200,000-word novel that I’ve been working on for years – proving the following advice to be so true. “I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”
— Blaise Pascal, mathematician...