Tag: Fourth of July
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July so far: Good Trouble in the Summertime
22 July 2025 I’m was up this morning far earlier than accustomed for this retiree, as Levi Ellis and his painting crew arrived at 8 am to restore my shower and apse ceilings and our big deck to their original pristine state. And it’s unusually cool for mid-July in New Hampshire, a welcome reprieve from…
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What to Us Now is the Fourth of July?
2 July 2025 The proximity of Independence Day and recently hearing filmmaker Ken Burns speak of his upcoming series on the American Revolution have together sent me back to re-reading “the unanimous declaration of the thirteen united States of America.” Several statements against “the present King of Great Britain” stand uncomfortably out, beginning with the…
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Eight Days, Two Picnics, and One Fourth of July 2023
Can it be the heat stroke I nearly gave myself when I mowed the grass last steamy Thursday that accounts for the dreams I’ve had in the past couple of days? Yesterday brought a classic anxiety dream: being unprepared for a lecture (hadn’t even read the book yet) and then trying to get to class…
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The Fourth of July
It is the Fourth of July, and I am having trouble concentrating. My setup for a dinner party to begin at 6.30 is complete—beer and wine cooling, the New York Times’s Juneteenth peach-molasses chicken soon to be grilled, the salads made and strawberry-rhubarb cobbler baked. I’ve prepped the staging area for fireworks later, and loaded…
Georgeann Murphy 