I have a love-hate relationship with those holiday letters people send out. On the one hand, I really like hearing how my people’s lives have changed over a year. On the other hand, for some reason, I could never write one myself. I think it’s performance anxiety - a fear that [...]

In this morning’s email from Liz Liddy:
I am very, very sad to report that Ray has passed away. Ray suffered 3 cardiac arrests today, and succumbed about 1 hour ago at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. It is so hard to believe.
It was Dean von Dran who greeted our class when I started at SU. He [...]

No one has ever accused my blog of being too cute, but I did return from Istanbul and filled out my family a bit.
The contrast, though, of visiting a place as strictly observer - even more pronounced by not speaking a word of Turkish - and then fully integrating a pair of babies into my [...]

I am proud to announce that Monday was my first day as an official part of Casey Bisson’s and Plymouth University’s formally-known-as-wpopac-new-name- announced-later project. I’ve been working with Casey informally for a number of months and my formal participation in the project makes me enormously proud. We’re up to great things and you’ll [...]

A few months ago I lost all four of those little black shoes they ship Dell laptops with - this is annoying, because the battery door in the middle bottom makes a foot-less lappy wobbly AND the battery doesn’t have the clearance it needs to cool effectively. The only real solution I’ve come up [...]

October 1st, 2005, my grandmother, Mopper, died. Her loss affected me deeply and acutely and I still feel it today - I suppose I always will. I decided that day that in order to honor her integral presence in my life and preserve a personal link to my extended family on my mom’s [...]

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Hey, what a surprise, there is nobody else in the US named Lichen Rancourt… Actually, I did think there were a couple others. Jan Brett has a Christmas story in which one of the reindeer is named Lichen. I’m sure she’s a [...]

After a particularly windy night in Dover and a recreational tragedy with which to contend, I hit the road for Burlington and NELA.
My journey took me through Lebanon, home of my all-time favorite pub. It’s everything a town bar should be - high ceilings, hardwood floors, comfy stools standing sentry at a long copper [...]

I don’t shop at Walmart. I will pass dozens of McDonalds, Chili’s, and Olive Gardens to find a hole-in-the-wall where the owner is also the chef. I pay way more money and drive a whole lot further to shop at Tuttle’s instead of Hannaford.
Yet, Sean and I once got into an argument on the [...]

I’ve been accused of talking about myself too muchbut I’ve been so busy, I haven’t been able to develop any good posts. I do have a story, however… if you’ll indulge. Have you ever tried to describe the internet to someone who has never even used a computer? My grandmother, for example, [...]