We drove through Colebrook and watched the town center thin out through open car windows traveling East. The air was warm and threatening spring. I wanted to be in my canoe paddling past small islands dense with second growth trees. We were on our way to Dixville Notch, Brad and Erin promised me a playground […]
When spring skiing starts to feel like that fourth martini at your cousin’s destination wedding where they have a drum circle scheduled for sunset, you know a change is in order. I left early in the AM this last Sunday with my customary thermos of black coffee and a hastily packed lunch. But instead of […]
I entered the Princess Room at the Omni Mt. Washington Hotel a man without tails. I had the money set aside, a sort of slush fund I keep for spontaneous life enriching experiences. I had time, overnight shipping for the perfect, most authentic Edwardian tuxedo was only thirty dollars extra. What stymied this writer was […]
In the North Country we notice when the bank gets new all-weather mats. We order dessert with our breakfast. We know who is shopping at the Co-op by the cars in the parking lot. We appreciate when the local coffee shop refreshes the Lavender and Linen candle in their unisex restroom. We have around-town camouflage […]
Nobody moves here by accident. But those who seek to understand our unsettled-awesome are rarely disappointed by it. Come for our intensity, stay for our eccentricity. Forty four degrees north latitude provides wonderful delights. Now, let me tell you a little bit about meat. It is so often advised that a person not sh*t where […]
-and the speed! Make my mornings just a single caught-edge from a Tib. Fib. Fracture please! My caffeinated cruising has me only two hours from slope side boozing. We meet most mornings at the mountain. Morning is when we congregate in the way that our local old timers, their hats covered with pins, showing their […]
