This month is about crisper temperatures, gorgeous fall leaves and blue skies. I miss the days of going all out on imaginative Halloween decorations; carving pumpkins, skeleton candles and ghosts on the front door. These were the days long before those giant inflatable monsters and ghouls on the lawn, that end up looking like a used sheet on the grass ...
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 ...
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 ...
In like a lion and out like a lamb. That’s always been the saying about the month of March. And while I’m dredging up quaint sayings, how about a riddle? What’s the only day of the year that is also a command? Cue the drumroll….“March Fourth.” Enough with the cheesy one-liners, let’s turn our attention to some great reads for March, and its one ...