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Holiday Newsletter 2022
Dear friends, I hope the season finds you well. It’s sixty degrees and December in New England. Is this the new normal? The angle of the sun coming into the window doesn’t match the weather and I feel dislocated. The forsythia outside my window has leaves on it. You have to appreciate the forsythia’s effort–I
Fall 2022
Friends, We’ve got a Norway maple at the edge of our backyard. It seems there’s one day in October when the color of it goes from green to a brilliant orange. That’s what happened yesterday. There are twenty-five grackles ransacking the bird feeder. Stink bugs are invading the house. Must be fall. In this issue:
Spring 2022
Hello Friends I keep thinking of the immortal line by Wendell Berry: “Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.” This is wise advice, and not always easy to do. Truth is, I’m sick to my stomach at the state of the world. We’re all horrified by what Putin has done and can’t but
Holiday Newsletter 2021
Hello Friends, Hope you are well! I’m working on a new book now about a storyteller (not me), and as a result, I’ve been thinking about stories and storytelling a lot lately. I’m in a reading group at a local library (the Providence Athenaeum) and we’re reading The Odyssey in the new translation by Emily
Summer 2021
Dear friends I hope you’re well. We’re all healthy here and safe, which is no small thing right now. Yesterday I was walking our dog in our friend’s field and though it’s only the first week of August, I could see a few leaves in the trees just beginning to turn and the tall grass
Spring 2021
Friends Finally, a newsletter! I have, I guess, as some people have been writing about, been “languishing”, not motivated to tell you I’m stuck at home. But I can feel the shift in our lives and have been thinking about the past year. Certainly, it has been brutal and sad and scary and exhausting. Here’s
