The smell is in the air. You could blindfold me and take me out to an Indian summer day and I could name the season. Fall’s scent is tinged with a kind of hardwired nostalgia for the death of summer and that old feeling of back to school. Cut-offs get put away, sundresses folded and there’ a rush of cooler air coming through the windows that makes ...
I’ve been doing more writing than reading this summer, and that feels good. There’s nothing like being in “the flow.” And all writers and creative folk know that’s not something you can just “call up” at will. As I write, the crickets are singing their August song, which is the sound of fall approaching. So let’s get right down to what ...
Summertime…where the livin’ is easy and my idea of heaven is a reclining chair, an iced tea with lemon, a bit of breeze and an engrossing book. One thing is for certain, publishers unleash the floodgates this time of year with a poo-poo platter of choices for every taste. So…grab your favorite landscape escape, sunscreen, a cold beverage, and dig in ...
May is my planting time, and with a little effort and a lot of bug bites, the garden is in. Now’s the fun part, watering, watching and waiting for the buds to flower and the tomatoes to grow. Speaking of crops, there are some great reading selections for the month so enjoy….. Fiction: The Princess of Las Vegas by Chris Bohjalian Chrissy Dowling is a ...
When something gets too hyped, a book, a movie, an experience, I always worry I’ll be disappointed in the end. Can anything possibly live up to so much praise? So, when I asked my family to set aside the eclipse weekend, take off a day of work and spend it in “totality” with me in upstate New York, my goal was that they would be wowed. At least a ...