The good news for those of us in middle age is the mounting evidence that regular, cardiovascular exercise can delay and possibly prevent the memory loss associated with aging; all we have to do is sweat. You’d have to be living under a rock not to know that aerobic exercise promotes cardiac health. The heart […]
Living in Place
Why I Hate Mother’s Day
I love being a mother, and I hate Mother’s Day While I was pregnant with our first child, friends, family and strangers assured me I could write while the baby slept. And I believed them. After all, I’d already navigated graduate school and wrote a dissertation while teaching. How hard could motherhood be after that? […]
Local food, foraged & farmed
Last Friday, we enjoyed a supper of all local food, some foraged, some farmed. FORAGED Tim’s co-worker Holly spent her lunch hour down by the river and returned to the office with a bucket full of fiddleheads and ramps. She sent a generous supply home with Tim. These are spring delicacies, among the first the […]
Personal Becomes Universal Through Research
Guest Post by Novelist Donna D. Vitucci The answer to my question, How long does it take to write a book? is fifteen for the novelist Donna Vitucci, who has just published Salt of Patriots after fifteen years of research, writing and revision. In this guest post, Vitucci describes what motivated her – and kept her […]
Spring is Slow, Steady and Sweet
Spring here is slow, steady and sweet. SLOW The slow procession of the season, from dirty snow to sparkling green pasture, breeds patience. Sweetness is the reward. First, sap rises from the ground, then steam from the sugarhouse, yielding amber syrup: the blood of the earth filtered through trees. STEADY Next, sun and rain perform […]
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