poetry

The Poetry of Apple Butter: A Recipe

Actually, this is a non-recipe. Apple butter is not a science. It’s just something you make in the fall ‘after apple picking', to borrow...

Oct 20, 20203 min read

Were you visited by the COVID fairy last night? We were. She came to mark the anniversary of the day things shut down. Last year on March...

Mar 13, 20213 min read

Ok! So recently I have been doing the usual, y’know: chilling, walking, feeding crows, and- oh, you don’t feed crows!? Well, you should...

Mar 7, 20212 min read

It’s been over a year since I got my first pair of reading glasses. We were on vacation in Canada and found ourselves in a dollar store...

Feb 17, 20212 min read

Actually, this is a non-recipe. Apple butter is not a science. It’s just something you make in the fall ‘after apple picking', to borrow...

Oct 20, 20203 min read

We have deer by the dozen, but we have no moose in Acadia National Park. This is a sore spot with tourists, who drive a long way...

Oct 4, 20203 min read

Growing up, my brother and I had dozens of invisible friends. Not imaginary: invisible. We didn't invent them, exactly. We discovered...

Aug 31, 20203 min read

Every night when I sat down to work on my book on Jeremiah Hacker, I'd call, "Hacker time!" That was the cue for Joe-Joe, our extremely...

Mar 18, 20191 min read