Living In Place

Protect the First Amendment Of all Donald Trump’s abuses of power, the use of unmarked law enforcement officers against American citizens in Portland is the one that makes me...

The last time I was stopped for speeding was in 2002. I was on a New Hampshire state highway, heading home from Concord, where my two thirteen-year old passengers had just...

How is it that until this year, I didn’t know about Juneteenth, the anniversary of the day the news of the Emancipation Proclamation made it to Texas, then a remote outpost? How...

One of the ways hunting has changed me, is now I can’t stay out of the woods. Before I started hunting, I mostly walked on dirt roads. When I did go into the woods, it was always...

While hanging laundry on Sunday, I watched a house wren furnishing her nest in a birdhouse hanging nearby. Last year, we had a house wren inhabit the same birdhouse, which then...

There’s nothing funny about Covid-19, which is why a little levity is in order. And who better to provide it than the folks who bring resilience through laughter to those who...