November is inching toward us, the sun is low behind the trees, nothing in the garden is left to bloom, and the news is jarring and surreal. And then we have this- on the CNN website- and I knew all was proceeding as planned. The Day of the Human will end, and the rats and… Read more

Having spent almost four decades living on limestone, I now live among a multitude of granite remnants scraped from the bedrock by glaciers and randomly dropped everywhere . Impediments to early settlers, who broke backs and plows moving them and stacking them into walls, they are merely picturesque to us, unless we are trying to… Read more