H and I are planning a walk next week to bag a couple more 4,000 footers, this time Whiteface and Passaconaway. We may be joined by old friend, BB. Unlike the uninteresting in-and-outs I’ve been doing, this walk will describe … Continue reading
My winter’s trip to New Zealand’s summer gets more and more real. Tickets have been booked, reservations have been made, and our leaders, J and C, have scheduled a “pre-hike” for late October in the White Mountains. The 15 of … Continue reading
After a few pleasantly chill and damp days, this morning seemed tropical, partly because I went lazily out at 7:30 instead of in the relative coolth of 6:30. By the time I’d shuffled to the mile mark, I was sweating … Continue reading
We’re missing sweet B, A, and H very much right now, and blessing iChat as usual. We’re noticing a tremendous and fascinating spurt of language from B. During a long-distance chat late last week, she at one point put her … Continue reading
We walk most mornings past these new tennis courts, close to the Middle School. They’ve been busily in use early in the day all summer, but yesterday they were damp and forlorn. We’ve gotten a lot of rainover the last … Continue reading
The great Tony Judt got the obituary he deserved in the New York Times last week: exemplary. Its writer, William Grimes, described Judt as “a ‘universalist social democrat’ with a deep suspicion of left-wing ideologues, identity politics and the emerging … Continue reading
I was in New Hampshire earlier in the week, bridging a scheduling gap in sweet B’s network of love and adoration. She and I had a terrific time making rude noises and singing “Twinkle-Twinkle”. We took a walk, hung out … Continue reading
I’ve been working for a long time on a project that involves knowing a lot about the world of jazz and swing during the ’30s. I found this in a loose clipping that was probably from one of the black … Continue reading
We’ve had an interesting few weeks in northern New England. I went up to New Hampshire in mid-July to walk in the Whites, and stayed with H, A, and sweet B in Concord for a few days, then returned for … Continue reading
The previous post was encouraged by the coolness described and fascinatingly displayed in this piece on HuffPo. A Village Lost and Found. … Continue reading