I’ve mentioned that it’s rural around here. It’s really exquisite. After thirty years in Maine and seventeen in Rhode Island dealing with Ne...

sunset over the pasture

I went to brunch with friends and there was an Old Harp event going on in the atrium. The acoustics made the old, rural type of a capella si...

I spent some time in Scotland a few years ago. The local controversy at the time was why listeners never hear a range of UK accents on the B...

My time is filling in. I’m going out socially, I’ve picked up three part time jobs, and I’m writing a book. The long days of nothing are com...

I think it's a great idea to reduce, reuse, and recycle. In doing my part, I've saved all the I Can't Believe It's Not Butte...

Yesterday, as I vacuumed my apartment, I found that if I used my upright Hoover in a methodical left-to-right pattern, I could get all the f...

How small is it? Small town life in rural Georgia is all it’s cracked up to be. My former town was Gray, Maine which at pop, 7,500, locals t...

This week I counted among my successes the final placement of my art materials in their organizational shelves and drawers. Don’t laugh. I’v...

There are some places in the world I’ve lived and I wouldn’t want to live there again. There are other places I’ve visited and I don’t know ...