Monthly Archives: May 2014

Led down the garden path — and glad

When I was growing up, my family never had vegetable gardens, because my mother was unlikely to serve a vegetable that didn’t come from a can. In all fairness, it was the era: In the 1960s and 1970s, food was … Continue reading

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Brain trust arrives at Zeno Mountain Farm in Lincoln, VT

The campers have survived cataclysmic car crashes. Bike accidents. They’ve been thrown from their horses. Their lives have been changed in a heartbeat by a stroke. The shorthand for what they have experienced is TBI: traumatic brain injury. And this … Continue reading

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Love is a mini beer stein with toothpicks

A few years ago, a friend of mine had a delicate question about her mother, and wasn’t sure what to do. She decided to call a radio therapist for advice. Her mother, it seemed, needed to pay a little more … Continue reading

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Take me out to the ballgame. Not kidding.

Some people say that baseball is no longer America’s game because it’s too slow for the twenty-first century. Well, I’m here to celebrate it for that very reason – and how its occasionally glacial pace makes it a great game … Continue reading

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CLOSE YOUR EYES, HOLD HANDS — the video preview.

Greetings. As many of you know, CLOSE YOUR EYES, HOLD HANDS, my new novel, arrives in a little more than two months — on July 8, 2014. And some of you have probably read about the novel on-line, and learned … Continue reading

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