I drove the New Hampshire seacoast route in my friend and COVID podmate's car last week. We had gone to Portsmouth for the afternoon and...

I turned and stepped In the music’s sway, Face to face and holding hands With a young man at my university.

From L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, Chapter 16: October was a beautiful month at Green Gables, when the birches in the hollow...

In 1759, ten years after she died in childbirth, the physicist and philosopher Émilie du Châtelet published her magnum opus, a French...

Bancroft Castle...a dreamer's playground—and a dreamer’s warning.

"Perhaps not as patiently, we wait..."

The tilt of the Earth brings us closer to the sun We call it the spring in the northern hemisphere My mom on the porch reads a book to...

"We were able to be children, here among these trees."

On pastoral Massachusetts.

Dull in the distance, Charred logs and dim embers Wait for our company. It arrives in the evening, As plants and animals Settle down in...

The study of history can help us to do better as humans in the face of the unimaginable.

We had a hard choice to make.

"...we humans are capable of more than we remember."

Overseas living. It has its ups and downs to be sure.

I just finished a teacher training situated at Oxford University. Sitting here now in my London hostel, I find that I’m not missing the...

I write about this song today because it brought up a memory from a few years ago, of a moment that stands frozen in time.

Even though you know the winter will end, you're still surprised when it does. You ask yourself how it can be that you have forgotten...

Green Morocco and Red Morocco. I like this distinction.

Hey! It's been almost two weeks since my last update. Sorry about that. I try to write every week, but sometimes the words aren't there...

I settle into my music when the bus takes off from the curb.