Patti Smith, a singer, songwriter, poet, painter, and author became known as the “punk poet laureate” after her debut album, “Horses,” was rel…

Vladimir Nabokov’s short story “Christmas” is one of my favorite Christmas stories. A father, mourning the death of his teenage son, spends Ch…

This is the week I begin thinking about decorating for Christmas. Pulling the boxes of decorations, lights and candles from boxes that have be…

“I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.”

Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of "All Hallows' evening") has become one of the most popular holidays in the United States, second onl…

“Norman it’s the loons. Listen they are welcoming us back.”

When we were children, our family would occasionally travel to the Weirs to sail on the M/S Mount Washington around Lake Winnipesaukee. That w…

After enjoying a “berry” salad with raspberries, candid rhubarb, roasted beets, crumbled blue cheese and walnuts tossed on fresh greens, in th…

There is summer reading and winter reading. Books we carry to the beach in a basket and read sitting on a folded chair, often in a wet bathing…

Friends who grew up in Puerto Rico or California are either surfers or have a love of the water. In one way or another they understand and emb…