Walks with my dog Bodhi are getting shorter as he gets older. Winter walks around the neighborhood have always been a part of our time together. Generally around 10 PM I’ll go find him, or more often he’ll find me and we’ll start our routine. I dress for the weather du jour, he wears his…
The Merrimack River runs from the Lakes Region in New Hampshire to the Atlantic Ocean. Source to Sea it’s roughly 117 miles long from the confluence of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers at Franklin, NH to the mouth at Newburyport, Massachusetts. This stretch of river has served as a source of food, commerce and…
Super Bowl LII is tonight. I’ll be 52 myself this year. For almost 1/3 of my life the Patriots led by Tom Brady and Bill Belichick have been in or contending for the a place in the Super Bowl. It’s been a memorable run. Tonight they’ll play in another one. We all know that it…
This morning I’m sipping a Starbucks Italian Roast coffee. I could have chosen Peets or something else. I’ve grown lazy in my coffee habit. I have coffee beans and could have ground them using my hand grinder, poured them into a French press and savored the rich results. Brewing coffee is a ritual. Some days…
I live in Southern New Hampshire in a town that used to be part of Massachusetts. Borders changed a lot back in the day. The area I’m likely saw many turf wars between the Pennacook and Abenaki over the centuries. Both tribes were part of the Webanaki Confederacy. Webanaki means “People of the Dawn Land”…
New England in winter is a land of ice and snow. Sure, there’s all that other stuff here, but when you live here you’re always aware of these two things that encroach on your daily routine more than anything else. Want to double or triple the time it takes you to get to the office?…
Winter brings seclusion to the beach. After all, who’s really lingering on a beach in January anyway? Well, I am when the opportunity presents itself. I’m not a beach person in that I don’t see any point in lying on the sand while the sun cooks your skin. And yet I’m a beach person in…
Standing watch at the Mouth of the Merrimack River is Red # 2. Red # 2 is a navigational buoy that rides out some of the most violent conditions on the East Coast. Red # 2 is not as well known as MR, which is the first red navigational buoy on the approach to the…
Started strong on this blog, then petered out as the realities of a job spiraling downhill combined with an irony-filled sales kick off meeting in Portugal left me with not much to say. Which of course is not the case at all with all that going on. I’ll work to be more consistent. The sales…
Don’t Cry About the Weather The day after the “bomb cyclone” storm that dumped a foot of snow in my area, and wreaked havoc on the coastal areas. It’s a day when we all take a breath, finish cleaning up the mess and get on with living. The weather, and the seasons in general, are…
