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  • Of Trees and Roots and Names of Things

    When my grandpa Averill bought property on Wolf Lake in the Irish Hills of Michigan in the early 40s, he picked the choice lot for himself, and then parceled out smaller lots along the lake edge in a little barony he named “Averill’s Basswood Terrace”. (My grandpa liked to see…

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  • Bits and pieces

    It’s March, somehow… it has been a while since I posted, but as the sun makes its way back, I find I have a little…

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    So I have this friend who called to ask if I would babysit her 30 gallon live-rock saltwater aquarium, while they try to sell their…

  • For Jenny, bienvenido!

    I have always been a nest-maker, and life with small children has made me even more rooted in place, unwilling to consider any life changes…

  • Jeff’s fine…

    To friends who have asked aboout Jeff’s cardiac catheterization: it was yesterday, and all is well. There was no blockage requiring angioplasty or stints, and…