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“Spring” Experience
31 March 2025 This liminal season, late March in New Hampshire, challenges body and spirit as the weather toggles back and forth between spring promise and winter redux. Waking this Saturday morning to sleet on the newly uncovered deck furniture left me out-of-sorts, uncertain of how to make best use of the day. Friday the…
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New Orleans Revisited
5-9 March 2025 My much-anticipated visit to dear friends in New Orleans got off to a rocky start a week ago when 15 minutes en route to the Manchester airport, I suddenly could not remember lifting my carry-on suitcase into the hatch of my GTI. A look in the review mirror confirmed it wasn’t there,…
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Performance
4 March 2025 Hard to process, the nauseating, preposterous attack on a genuine hero, Volodymyr Zelensky, perpetrated by the Felon-in-Chief and his Smarmy Vice Suckup last Friday in the Oval Office, where only days before the Unelected Muskrat’s spawn picked his nose and wiped the results on the Resolute desk, an apt summation of the…
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In transition
17 February 2025 Stopping mid-ascent on the stairs yesterday, I spied through the northwest window a small hawk having Sunday brunch at the expense of a fellow feathered creature, whose scattered plumage scudded across snow sculpted smooth by the prevailing wind. Not until I dug out the front entrance and made my way to inspect…
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Crowded with incident
3 February 2025 Here we are, nearing the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, and I am tallying the ups and downs of the past fortnight, beginning with the medical marvel that is the cardiac ablation I had at Mass General in Boston on 21 January: heart surgery as out-patient procedure. Is’t…
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Reservoir of cheer, “American Primeval,” and a wide receiver
18 January 2025 After a stretch of bitter cold and howling gales, today’s temperature broke 40o and no wind blew. A better night’s sleep than of late primed me for a most enjoyable stroll to and along the Madbury reservoir, tricked out with ice fishermen and rendering a spacious new world version of a winter…
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Tenth Day of Christmas
4 January 2025 Perhaps I am not alone, Dear Reader, slouching my way into the new year: this holiday season has been a curious mixture of alternating cheer (largely solitary) and anxiety. Leading up to Christmas there were promising developments (the arrival of the Rye Beach Landscaping crew and their marvelous French excavating machine, appearing…
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Chapel Hill Grad
23 December 2024 A week ago Sunday was a good day, a full moon and the graduation of our other granddaughter, Isabel, from UNC Chapel Hill. Like her sister Olivia part of the Covid Class of ’24, Isabel had weathered a pandemic AND calculus to earn her B.S. in Environmental Science, and Lord knows we…
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Nutcracker Magic
7 December 2024 Last Saturday it was my great pleasure to accompany my wonderful neighbors Anne and Peter and their 6-year-old son Leo to Boston to see Leo’s first Nutcracker. Tchaikovsky’s confection has loomed large in my personal history, starting with my parents’ providing me a boxed set of 45’s to play on my little…
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St. Augustine Respite
18-21 November 2024 Seeking an escape from the woes of this soon-to-pass year (my sister’s death, Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and the return of felonious Trump), I had a pre-Thanksgiving reunion with my brother-in-law Richard and nephew Daniel in our nation’s oldest city, St. Augustine, founded in 1565 (Shakespeare was then one year old) by…
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