Living In Place

Heaps of Papers Following the high of tidying all my clothes with Ruth, we moved on to the office – a room off the front hall that I’d come to loathe for its heaps of papers, the...

My studio is again an internet-free zone. The unintended consequence of switching to faster technology is returning my studio into an internet-free zone. While unintended, this...

Two Tesla Powerwalls stacked against the wall. After eleven months of waiting, my house is now plugged in to Tesla Powerwalls. These sleek, large batteries are now installed next...

Almost four years ago, I dissed Marie Kondo’s best-selling book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up as an entirely unreasonable approach to creating an uncluttered home. A...

Ice Out is a big deal in northern New England, where we’re often four weeks into spring before the first spears of daffodils emerge from the soil, and five weeks or more before...

This is the text of the eulogy for my friend Jan Rutherdale I delivered yesterday at Centennial Hall in Juneau, Alaska. Once I overcame the shocking and unwelcome fact of Jan’s...