Catalogs
We get way too many catalogs. Here is an example. We ordered a few things from Garnet Hill recently. First, we already get catalogs from them. We get one in my name and one in... More »
We get way too many catalogs. Here is an example. We ordered a few things from Garnet Hill recently. First, we already get catalogs from them. We get one in my name and one in... More »
THE LETTER I receive a letter telling me I will receive a letter. It wears a strange stamp, a cryptic return address. The next day I receive a letter telling me I will receive a... More »
This morning I looked out the window at the gray light of early morning to see the snowplow coming up the road, an arc of slush in a precise and artful wave beside it. This... More »
Three large baskets of laundry, folded and put away! Lasagna prepared and cooked! Kitchen cleaned! Floor swept and mopped! Family holiday gifts wrapped! Seventeen books read! Fire rekindled and maintained! Sleds pulled up hill and... More »
Before we moved we had our junk mail situation in pretty good order. We used to get almost no junk mail. Then we got a subscription to The Progressive , a monthly, left-leaning political rag... More »
I used to lead trips for an outdoor center. We would take kids and teenagers out to the wilderness in New England or New York for a week or two. They were great trips. They... More »