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Dear Folks: April 26, 1998
Dear Folks,
Such a difference a month makes in New England in April! Especially this April, which has been as warm and sunny and sweet as any I can remember.
Because of the lovely weather, we’re two weeks ahead of schedule. Boy, does THAT ever feel good — and rare in our hectic spring! Stephen and Kerry have their whole two acre [...]
Dear Folks: March 23, 1998
March 23, 1998, North Holland
Dear Folks, I’m on a train somewhere between Groningen and Amsterdam, looking out at early spring in the incredibly fertile Dutch countryside. Forsythia are in full bloom, and ornamental plum trees with delicate pink blossoms, and narcissus. The canals and ditches are swollen with spring rain. Very round sheep are grazing everywhere, few lambs, but it looks like [...]
Dear Folks: February 22,1998
Dear Folks, The sun is shining bright and the snow is melting. Morning chores have shifted an hour earlier, and evening chores an hour later. In the windows flats are sprouting leeks and celeriac and pansies, and in the barnyard there are lambs — yes lambs!
Yesterday was what I would call a Perfect Saturday. Having felt overburdened for weeks (more on [...]
Dear Folks: January 25, 1998
Dear Folks, What I should be doing is reading the great pile of student papers on my desk, but it’s more fun to write to you.
My annual teaching term at Dartmouth has begun, which always drops a full-time job right into the center of my already over
(Simon the cat walked across the keyboard here. I don’t usually let him leave his [...]
Dear Folks: December 27, 1997
Dear Folks, All’s quiet at Foundation Farm. It’s Saturday afternoon, 4 PM, just turning dark. I’m listening to the Met broadcast of Don Carlo. The big woodstove in my study is ticking with heat and three big dogs are sprawled out on the floor in front of it. Simon the gray cat is curled up on the copy machine, Kitty the [...]
