The house is so quiet. I had planned to spend the afternoon putting Christmas decorations away, vacuuming the dog hair…
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Coyotes
If you live in the country, you know the sound: the high, frantic yipping and yowling of coyotes working themselves…
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A time for silence (and a tea recipe)
Before my son Henry flew back to Minnesota last week, I took him out shopping for vitamins. Last winter, temperatures…
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Monks and memories
A month after the September 11 terrorist attacks, I drove from our house in Massachusetts up to New Hampshire to…
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