Friday, March 27, 2015

Inch Fifty-Five: Cousins

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My sons' cousin Eric, who on the paternal side of their family tree is the closest in age to them, has been in Portland with his wife an...
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Saturday, March 21, 2015

Inch Fifty-Four: Leaving the Woods

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Naturalist and essayist Henry Thoreau famously left his home in Concord, Massachusetts, in the summer of 1845, built a small cottage on the ...
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Friday, March 13, 2015

Inch Fifty-Three: Back

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It is raining as I pen these words late Friday afternoon. It has been raining since early afternoon and the day is gray and wet. The tree br...
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Saturday, March 7, 2015

Inch Fifty-Two: A Year of Posts

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Ramona's pinwheel buried in the garden snow Back on March 15, 2014, I made a commitment to write a blog post a week , figuring I was...
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Saturday, February 28, 2015

Inch Fifty-One: Nostalgic Reading Revisited.

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Two weeks ago I wrote that I was waiting for two books from my past to arrive in the mail. Well, they arrived and I read them.  I wa...
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Friday, February 20, 2015

Inch Fifty: The Ninth Circle of Hell Has Nothing on Us

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In the 1300s, the Italian poet Dante Alighieri wrote a three-part epic poem entitled The Divine Comedy . I have not read the entire work, bu...
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Friday, February 13, 2015

Inch Forty-Nine: Nostalgic Reading

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I am awaiting the arrival in the mail of two books from my past. These are titles that have teased my memory for years and I finally succumb...
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