Dear Folks: May 23, 1999
Dear Folks,
Twenty-seven years ago today Dennis and I moved to Foundation Farm. Now it is for sale. And I am soaking up my last May here.
May! I swore long ago never to leave this farm in May, never to miss a moment of this wonderful, magical month. (When the black flies appear and the crabgrass seeds germinate by the gazillion [...]
Dear Folks: April 25, 1999
Dear Folks,
Maybe we won’t need to put a “for sale” sign on Foundation Farm.
Maybe it will sell itself.
As soon as I started talking about putting it on the market, I got three expressions of interest, one from my next-door neighbor Peter Whybrow, one from a nice family in Meriden who have been eyeing it for some time. So this week [...]
Dear Folks: March 28, 1999
Dear Folks,
Foundation Farm has just invented a cartoon strip, the first installment of which you will find in this newsletter.
It started on the “white board” in our kitchen, the place where we write up the shopping list and the “to fix” list and the “to do” list. Sometimes random comments, announcements, or complaints appear on this board, but normally it [...]
Dear Folks: February 21, 1999
Dear Folks,
My mom complained that I used two unfamilar words in my last letter, so I just looked back to see what they were. I guess “entropy” and “Enneagram” are the most likely candidates. Sorry about that. Let me explain.
Entropy is a word physicists use to refer to the tendency of the universe to fall into disorder. If you pour [...]
Dear Folks: January 23, 1999
January 23, 1999
Dear Folks,
Have you ever noticed that entropy travels in waves? Things don’t fall apart in a steady or random pattern; rather when one thing breaks down, somehow the disorder is catching, and all sorts of other things break down, and you find yourself doing nothing but running around trying to get things fixed.
Maybe this phenomenon is only noticed [...]
