Mrs. Gray is beginning an interesting project over at her new site, Why Do People Write?. Her students will be asking authors what drives them to write, why they do what they do. Besides the obvious answer that “it’s a living” why do people write? Why did I write things like The Bat Report, or […]
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Letting Go
Of all the lessons in letting go that have come my way lately, the biggest one came watching my son’s taillights going down that driveway. My son has gone on driveabout, the American version of the Australian walkabout, the rambling, cross-country rite of passage that young people all go on if they are lucky. I […]
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I’ve been thinking about Facebook, more the last couple of days now that all the students are back and we need to worry about blocking Facebook during study hall. The decision to block it during study hours was the recommendation of a committee a year or two ago. The committee was formed of administrators, faculty, […]
Read the rest of this entry »Stolen Moments
A few weeks ago I saw a baby. I was coming around the north end of Lake Morey and I passed a long low wooden building with porches all along the front. The baby was on a green lawn in front of the building. It wore a long dress made of stripes of brightly colored […]
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I woke up this morning thinking about gratitude The thing that I am most grateful for today is that my brother is on driveabout. His last scan showed a bunch of new little tumors but they aren’t going to start more chemo for a few weeks So he and my sister in law have gone […]
Read the rest of this entry »Return of the Red-winged Blackbirds
The Red-winged Blackbirds are back! I heard them trill out in the swamp when I pulled in the dooryard on Friday night. It’s always a great moment. Spring is here when you hear the blackbirds. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP_Zn9DfBz4[/youtube]
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My son and I have been trying to pay attention to where our food comes from, we’ve been trying to eat locally. You can’t get much more local than the eggs we buy. A couple of months ago, this table, cooler and sign arrangement began to appear at the end of a local driveway, about […]
Read the rest of this entry »the deserving poor
I started thinking seriously about income and much and too much – money in other words – a week or so ago. In a semi-organized way I mean. As a subject, not as in “how will I be paying the electric bill this week” kind of way. I was listening to National Public Radio in […]
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I started reading this New York Times article (on a family surviving the severe pay cut of one of the wage earners. ) this morning with my coffee and just finished it up. I found it very striking, very interesting and it fits in perfectly with something I’ve been thinking about a lot these days: […]
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I was cleaning out one of the food cupboards the other day and I came across a jar of corn relish. This particular jar of relish was given to me by my Aunt Joanna and I remember the September day she gave it to me last year. She spoke about how corn relish in the […]
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