Living In Place
Sunday Afternoon At The Movies
When I moved to Vermont in 1984, one of the two things I missed most about New York City was the movies. I especially missed the revival houses where I’d watched Fred Astaire...
When Winter Gives You Lemons . . .Make Lemon Curd
When Winter Gives You Lemons . . . Make Lemon Curd Lemons don’t grow in Vermont in the winter – or any other time of the year. Not much grows in Vermont during the winter – not...
Learning to Use Scrivener
I first learned about Scrivener, a program to help writers organize long-form projects, from a post by J.A. Hennrikus, right here on Live to Write, Write to Live. A few months...
Don’t Suffer on Valentine’s Day
You don’t have to suffer on Valentine’s Day. Really. Trust me on this. Expectation, it’s said, is the source of all suffering, and greeting card manufacturers, chocolatiers,...
Slowing Down In Middle Age
This past weekend, I became acutely aware how I’m slowing down in middle age. We’d driven to Brooklyn to visit Naomi and Sam. It’s a drive I did weekly for the year and a half I...
A Review of Clauses and Conjunctions
It’s clear from the many comments I received after my last post about semi-colons, that a review of clauses and conjunctions would be helpful. CLAUSES Clauses are a group of...