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I spent last week with my family at an Appalachian Mountain Club Camp on Lake Winnepesaukee. Three Mile Island Camp has been around for over a century. I worked there 20 years ago and have... More »
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At long last my dream come true: doughnut delivery. This new business in Burlington will deliver fresh donuts (OK I prefer this spelling) to you first thing in the morning. Dinky Donuts (referring to the... More »
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A few days ago I wrote about how our coffee maker's carafe shattered while sitting on the counter. I emailed Capresso, the maker of the machine, to see if they would give me any kind... More »
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Yesterday when I arrived home the big news from my children and spouse was that a huge bang sounded in the afternoon. They could not figure out what the heck it was. They searched the... More »
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WHAT POETRY SOUNDS LIKE It is not Keats’ nightingale, or Milton’s, singing in glades yonder or wooded groves nigh. It is coffee percolating in a warm kitchen. It is a snowplow scraping winter from buried... More »
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Today I left the house to work at a school and just barely got a banana a cup of coffee to go before I left. I admit I took the time to read a book... More »
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This was one of the two mornings each week when I am responsible for packing the children into our automobile, along with lunch boxes, extra pants and socks, and water vessels for each of them,... More »
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I went for a run today in the cold. I'm talking cold , too. The temperature was about 18 degrees, and the wind was blasting across the open fields. I nearly froze my tuckus off,... More »
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We only had two eggs, so I bagged the coffeecake and baked raspberry cinnamon muffins with a sweet crusty crumble. We had apples ripening too fast on the counter, about thirty of them, so... More »
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The sun is up, heating up this August day. It will be a scorcher for our drive to the lake. I look forward to cocktails on the dock with good friends. I look forward to... More »
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