Living In Place
Punxsutawney Phil, Politics and Prognostication
On Groundhog Day, I checked the news before I checked the weather. After months of political forecasting, I was more interested in what had happened in Iowa than what was going...
Adaptive Torpor
With this year’s paucity of cold and snow in southern Vermont, I’ve had to adjust my tactics for winter survival. As Bernd Heinrich explains in Winter World: The Ingenuity Of...
Sourcing Free Images 2.0
I needed an image of a Renaissance self portrait for a recent post on my blog, but having made an expensive mistake once, I’ve become hyper vigilant about sourcing free images....
Self Portraits of the Middle Ages
The art of self-portraiture has advanced significantly since the Middle Ages, from panel portraits by European artists in the fifteenth century to high-resolution videos of...
Retirement?
Recently, I’ve been attending retirement parties with the frequency I once attended weddings. Unlike weddings, however, these parties have been lighthearted, informal and fun....
Staying Inspired
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about staying inspired. I’m not talking about finding ideas, characters, plots, essay topics or images for poems, but encouragement to keep...