Affirmations, Not Resolutions I used to celebrate New Year’s Eve in the accepted and conventional manner: I’d stay up till midnight, fortify my resolve with champagne, and vow to live cleaner, work harder, and sustain a calm, orderly, life. I’d make these resolutions at midnight, and in the morning – just hours into the New […]

We bucked all our Christmas traditions this year. With none of our adult children at home and still reeling from the election, there didn’t seem any point in decorating a tree, baking cookies, or preparing a Christmas Day feast. So we didn’t. We hiked Stratton Mountain instead. The weather favored our outdoor ambitions: snow-cover, sunshine, […]

As promised, here are recipes for the food we carried on the Long Trail. GENERAL INFORMATION I purchased most of the ingredients for these recipes from the Brattleboro Food Coop, which runs a fabulous bulk department of grains, legumes, nuts, dried fruits, seeds and spices. I bought shelf-stable cheese tortellini, and prepackaged foods like pasta […]

Snow in December! To have both sunshine and snow in December is a gift. On Monday, I woke to the town plow rumbling down my road: A few inches had fallen, and it was still coming down. This was a tremendous gift after last winter’s dearth of snow and this past summer’s drought. We need […]