Launching the next generation
If you are able to sit quietly and observe the handiwork of Mother Nature this time of year, you will be abundantly rewarded.
View ArticleRemembering what forests teach us
On one of the hotter days, sun blazing with temperatures near 90, I was sweating as I went for my daily walk. I knew I wouldn't get far on the paved road in the heat, so I turned down a dirt road and...
View ArticleIt's hot out here
In the heat of summer, sometimes we don't know how to cool off or get comfortable, and we lead our lives the way we're used to leading them. People who live in other parts of the country are more...
View ArticleHow others see us
Summer weekends in the Adirondacks can be peaceful and serene. Or not. Our weather this summer has been dramatically warm, and our thunderstorms have been powerful and sometimes bruta.
View ArticleLearning from trees
On the day I considered my last day of summer vacation before school started, I took a walk up the St. Regis Mountain trail.
View ArticleBears live here, too
Eleven years ago I was at work as copy editor at the Adirondack Daily Enterprise when terrible events unfolded in New York City. Just days before, we had been in the city and dropped our son Colin off...
View ArticleAppreciation comes home
Over the weekend I had the privilege of working at the 14th annual Arts and Healing Retreat held at Great Camp Sagamore. Sponsored by the nonprofit Creative Healing Connections Inc.
View ArticleComing in for the season
Early this morning, for the last time this year, I went out to the deck and pulled old sheets off the houseplants which have made their home outdoors since June.
View ArticleDiary of a ride on the rails
It's 8 a.m. As I sit quietly in a train in Penn Station, in midtown Manhattan, my fellow travelers begin to pull their suitcases and bags through the train, looking for their seats.
View ArticleAdapting to November
Welcome back to standard time! I have one clock I always leave on standard time, even when we borrow an hour of daylight every spring. I especially refer to it in the week or so before we "fall back"...
View ArticleThoughts on giving thanks
Staring down at a cold morning on Keese Mills Road, the early sun illuminates frosty branches of the trees in the forest. Diamonds of ice glitter in the sun's rays, more magnificent against a brilliant...
View ArticleDecember in these woods
December is upon us. What are the characteristics of December unfolding in the Adirondacks? It's a mixture of nature and man's overlay of community, survival and historical celebration.
View ArticleThis time of year, this year
Here is the setting: a quiet spot by an Adirondack river, early morning, almost winter solstice.
View ArticlePonds in winter
Two weeks ago, we drove our sons to their ride back to the city, and from there, to flights back to their homes. We'd had a week of quality family time, replete with constant board games, card games...
View ArticleOut my winter window
By the time these words appear in the paper, our recent bitter spell will have passed. Folks who have lived here a long time blink, put one of their extra layers aside, and move on.
View ArticleReflections on a frigid morning
It's morning, between 7 and 8 a.m: Still 20 below. Steam is rising from the river as it babbles by. I covered the deck with sunflower seeds and a flock of mourning doves has now timidly moved in for...
View ArticleSlipping away for the weekend
I had plans to get away for the weekend, but the weather forecast was for snow showers turning to flurries. I wondered what that meant. I had a train ticket to New York City leaving from Saratoga...
View ArticleOff in search of spring
I know something is different when I can go outside to fill my bird feeders and I don't have to put on boots, hat, scarf, mittens and coat to do so.
View ArticleA sleepy little town
When I woke up and looked out the window in my son's lower Manhattan apartment, there was not a tree or mountain to be seen. His block on the Lower East Side has tenement buildings on both sides, with...
View ArticleFiguring out Adirondack Aprils
April is the time of year when many Adirondackers are up in the air about what to do. Not in the everyday sense like going to work, preparing dinner or getting the oil changed in the car, but in a more...
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