The last time I hiked Mt. Equinox I’d just finished the first draft of my first novel, and I’d known Tim for less than a week. Last Sunday, we hiked it again, for the second time in thirty-one years. Three decades later, and everything is changed. The trail isn’t what I remembered. In fact, I’m […]

It was early Saturday morning. “I’m going to yoga,” I said. “Won’t you help me finish the wood?” Tim said. “I need a good work out,” I said. The Saturday class is the hardest of the week. “I’ll give you a good workout,” Tim said. I stayed and worked out with wood. He’d been working […]

I like to garden, but I love to weed. For twenty years, I’ve planted vegetables every spring. At first, I did so joyfully, planting peas during snow squalls and burying potato eyes in cold earth. Like any good Vermonter with spring fever, I’ve planted a garden with the sincere intent of putting up pickles, freezing […]