Here, in the north country of Central Maine, the grown ups are as excited about the Winter Solstice as the children are about the midnight visitor this week.  It will mean the beginning of the end of the long, dark nights that start about mid-afternoon and last until...

I've been working on the book about our ALS adventure.  I'd really just got into the part about Pat's fabulous chair when something popped up on Facebook that illustrates it much better than I can write. First the excerpt: The most important piece of equipment Pat...

In the old days, specifically during the plague, some poor people were boarded up inside their houses and left to die. Now we just access the internet and there you go, you can have your far distant grandchild read to you. The story, according to her, was about a fat...

I've not been posting much, or really at all, because I've been busy working on a book about our experience with ALS.  Last week, during the first of our two week shutdown I was reading Facebook as was everyone else when they weren't watching Netflix or Disney+.   ...

My daughter sent me a text they were slaughtering the turkeys.  It's that time of year, when after a year of fun and fellowship, they are now going to roast and eat their companions. And they feel pretty good about it.  It's important for them to like the things they...

After a two month hiatus due to lack of  internet connectivity up in Maine and a surfeit of emotional connectivity back home, I'm back where I belong. My little cabin in the Maine woods reinforced my decision NOT to be a fan of scary books and I enjoyed sitting out on...