No FOMO: The End of the Madness Is Close
FOMA is something I don't miss... that perpetual fear of missing out. With the pandemic still in force, nobody is going anywhere, no FOMA.
Ponderings
May 25, 2020: Ten Years of Memorial Day Memories
Memorial Day 2020. A time when I reflect on the places I was and the posts that I wrote at this same time over the past seven years.
May 17, 2020: Lights at the End of the Grim Tunnel
Last night we had plans. The first plans in weeks, we made a date to go have a picnic at Barton’s Cove, just as the sun was beginning to set and the light was at its most brilliant. We are …
May 10, 2020: Getting More Adjusted to This
May 10, 2020 It's been nine weeks of this total closure, people at home. Reflecting on travel to Italy in 2005 with my parents, a highlight.
Disappointing Myself During the Q Time
One of the unexpected joys of the 2020 quarantine is the chance — no, the obligation–to keep in touch with people via these fun Zoom conference calls, or just on the phone. I hate to think of how rarely I …
April 26, 2020: Irrigation Hoses Going into the Garden
Today’s date means the same lousy thing in any part of the U.S. and around the world. It’s a day in the midst of the famous pandemic, for which news has been surrendered and that touches every one of us, …
April 18, 2020: More than a Month into the Pandemic
April 18, 2020 . Written during the height of the pandemic when everything possible is closed, no one is working and fear is all around us.
We are deep into the thick of it now, April 18, 2020, this unexplainable, …
Dad’s Journal Notebooks Keep Sucking Me In
A Man Who Shared His Thoughts and Told People What He Thought of Them
Notebooks of my father. I have a bag of notebooks, journals by my father Nathaniel Hartshorne, that I’ve pored over and I hope to write about.…
Beaver Blockade at GCC
Beavers are creating dams and have blocked the culvert that takes water across the Greenfield Community College driveway, it might overflow.
Life During the Almost Lockdown
Lockdown! During the Covid 19 Coronavirus pandemic, I joined nearly everyone in the US during a lockdown where we all have to work at home.
Handwashing: Semmelweis Was a Doctor Ahead of His Time
Handwashing was never something important to doctors, until Dr Ignaz Semmelweis fought to convince the medical community that it spread germs
Gasification and Making Things From Trash
Trash: Some of the very clever companies who are using gasification to create fuels from trash, another company making products from garbage.
This Terrible Age Is About to Get Worse
We are in the thick of it, the beginning of the hockey stick statistic….its about to blow up. Italy, up to 250 more cases today from yesterday, and this means it will get worse next week. This whole terrifying episode …
Life in the Age of Cholera, er, Coronavirus
Coronavirus has made the entire world nervous, anxious and feeling dread. That's because no one knows what will happen, as the markets reel.
Storytellers Gather at Luthiers
Storytelling at Luthier's Coop in Easthampton, a group of storytellers gathered to share some funny, poignant, and sad stories about life.
Skating Has Always Been in my Blood
Skating has been in my blood since I was a small child learning to skate on the Institute Lake, where each winter Dr. Martin checked the ice.