by Ellie | Nov 15, 2013 | blog, Uncategorized
I’m dying. But let me quickly add, so are you. I, perhaps, sooner than you, but we just don’t know, do we? Teenagers rarely think about dying, but maybe fewer of them would do crazy stuff if they got in the habit of thinking ahead. The older you get,...
by Ellie | Nov 1, 2013 | blog
Pretend you’re a tree—young, growing proud rings of bone and muscle. Life is good, and everything likes you—birds, squirrels, even this small, supple plant at your ankles, waving its little tentacle cheerily. Soon it’s loving on your leg, then...
by Ellie | Oct 18, 2013 | blog
Fifty years ago we bought 280+- acres of Vermont woodland and became instant Tree Farmers. After all, hadn’t we just read a library book on the subject? We bought two bow saws and quickly realized that cutting even one tree with them might consume a lifetime....
by Ellie | Oct 4, 2013 | blog
Last Sunday we went to the Deerfield Fair in New Hampshire. I love fairs, but that’s not why we went. We wanted to see how daughter Rachel’s crocheted bedspread stood up against other handcrafted items. How would it be judged? We finally located the proper...
by Ellie | Sep 20, 2013 | blog
Did you ever watch the movie Fantasia, either in the 1940s or the rerun in 2000? One of the segments that Disney set to classical music was, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” starring Mickey Mouse as the beleaguered magician’s helper. Here’s...
