Headed to the farm on Cape Breton to lay the foundation for my Thoreau-not writer’s shack, and to finish writing up the last of the Ledyard walk. And yes, you’re right. Walking it was a snap compared to writing it… Preface Ledyard bleeding out upon the sands of Egypt. A quick flashback montage of Dartmouth […] More >>
Archives for September 2014
Paper Town
It was a beautiful morning, one of the last fine days of the summer, with trees just beginning to turn the corner toward the explosion of colors that precede winter’s monotone. But instead of going into the woods, where I know the swamp maples along the brook are already flashing their pinks and deeper reds, […] More >>
Marvin’s Daughter
In the 1980s a buddy of mine who worked for a union in Manhattan got to know some people who knew some people who made it possible for him to purchase a three family tenement in Greenpoint. This deal required some social engineering because Greenpoint was a very tight neighborhood. I used to hang out […] More >>
Unexpected!
The traditional day of rest was a busy one for me. I spent most of it fooling around with the first blog entry for my new e-commerce site, Unexpected! – Hope you’ll check it out. I think I’ve tapped into a booming business with a great future. Then I finished wrapping orders from Maritime List […] More >>
Labor in Vain
Here’s how the mind wanders on a Labor Day weekend… While leafing through a 19thcentury manuscript on naval ordnance I became captivated by two superbly rendered pages of ink drawings illustrating the “Parts of a Rifle.” This got me to thinking about what guns were like two hundred years ago and then, of course, what […] More >>