On Saturday, I watched my very oldest friend, Sarah, marry a poet. He is, of course, many other things too (including deeply beloved by my children), and the happiness of the match as well as the details of the day made for an especially good wedding. Although I have to admit– I look back at…
ten
Here, we are on day 2 out of 5. After the Musee Des Beaux-Arts, with friends who came too, and after a day of tromping through car-less streets. It may have stopped snowing by this point, but over that day, more snow fell on Montreal than they have had since 1971. It was one of…
bascom lodge
In my mind, the mountains in this county always belong to the writers. There is a mountain at the upper end of Berkshire county called Mount Greylock, and that one is Melville’s. “…nothing less than Greylock, with all his hills about him, like Charlemagne among his peers“. From where he sat at his desk in…
plum tart
More plums? More sweets? We could have worse things to complain about I’m sure. But I promise there will be other food soon, and I promise we’ve been eating other things too. In fact for those of you who need savory today and can fly without a recipe, there was a pretty good soup over…
triumphant
Last week, we went to the beach. It was, all in all, a spontaneous kind of trip. We’ve had no real getaways scheduled for this summer–really we have made days here and there out of book events, which has served the purpose nearly enough but not quite. We had plans to go down to a…
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Occasionally I teach workshops, and I have one coming up this fall. Join me and stellar novelist 