I’m in love with the slow voices of the old timers in my town. You can say most anything to them and their reply is some variation of...

The stars are crisp and icy in a clear black sky, but what I notice most this morning is the sound of running water coming from the...

I heave a great sigh of relief after the small work in the garden or moving a bit of winter wood is done. How does this compare to the...

He is big, broad, and mightily whiskered. If you didn’t know, you would find him scary. There’s a certain glint in his eye and his gaze...

I do not believe in all the promises that religion offers, yet here I sit on a dark evening, in a country church aglow with candles and...

I was driving into the Center just days after my mom had died. totally distracted thinking of my mother gone so quietly in the night...

A sourdough loaf still warm from the oven is worth its weight in tomatoes. A jar of garnet colored cordial nets a sack of scarlet...

The invitation went out: Bring a chair. Food to share. Booze of your choice. Headlamp. Bug spray. We gathered at a neighbor’s farm at the...

What a wonderful thing to be late for a concert in a small town. Too embarrassed to walk in and have all your neighbors stare, you creep...

Unloading jugs of water to tend my parents’ garden GoooOOOD MORNing! It’s a BEEooOOootiful day in Canterbury! (If there was a shade out...

There’s often a skinny fox trotting down the road by my house. Yesterday she (and I always think of this as a she-fox) was carrying a...

You would think he ate nails for breakfast, combed his beard with barbed wire (if he combed it at all), could bend steel with his bare...

30 years ago it was scrub and prickers. Of course, 30 years before that it was sturdy oak and beech, soft hemlock and slender birch. But...

I live at the end of a long country driveway. It twists and turns is rocky and rutted ridiculously icy this time of year. You would think...

How dare you trade in that old grey truck! I know you in that truck. Recognize you on the road. The distinctive rattle as you approach,...

That’s what Robin told her beloved sister before she died. That’s what her beloved sister told me as we sat around the table one cozy...

We bought land from a guy named Chance. He promised, among other things, to send someone to clear a spot for the house. Quite by chance...

From my kitchen window you will always see two blue chairs upon the deck, side by side overlooking the meadow. Last night a storm blew...

Today around noonish as an early autumn rain drifted down, I ambled up the hill to glean my midday meal from my neighbor’s garden (on...

Whenever I go walking now it is not unusual for a neighbor to cease weeding or raking to lean on the fence or perch on the stone wall and...