Category Archives: General Discussion

Hello all from Fairview’s excellent Acute Rehab Center where I am figuring out — with great help — how to stand and walk again. And I will do it, even if a ruptured appendix has tried its best to lay … Continue reading →

The annual longing-for-the-sea has settled in which usually means the Pebble Beach golf tournament has just come and gone. Until summer and for others who are lonesome for Roseledge, check the winter picture in the current St. George Newsletter. Wow! … Continue reading →

An Almost-Roseledge-Books-Regular (a potential RBRegular who has only been once) called from the airport to say she is delayed and reading Sarah Orne Jewett’s story maybe set in Tenans Harbor, Country of the Pointed Firs, and it is perfect. Sounds … Continue reading →

Some of you wonder if I choose the books for Roseledge Books which would be okay if, when I say that I do, some of you didn’t have the same look of incredulity that the car rental guy had when, … Continue reading →

Richard III (1452-1485) is alive again in the public mind! This is no small feat for someone dead these 500+ years.  The newsworthy note is that Richard III’s bones have probably been found which means that two questions about him … Continue reading →

Tim Watts died Wednesday morning and the tenor of Tenants Harbor changed in a heartbeat. He is a great big reason I know and love Tenants Harbor, and for that I will be forever grateful. Spring of ‘79, I was … Continue reading →

Should Sarah Orne Jewett’s Country of the Pointed Firs (CPF) be updated? No.  A classic (with meaning for many over time) should stay as is for whoever finds it next.  Sequels by others are often dreadful, e.g.  Margaret Mitchell’s Gone … Continue reading →

And then its time to go. What I learned these final days: Three-year old multi-grain baking mix, white whole wheat flour, and dark brown sugar do not lose their punch when mixed with fresh buttermilk, eggs and the last of … Continue reading →

It’s a perfect day, I shouted. “Today is worth a howl,” neighbor Fred said, and he howled down Sea Street on his way to get a paper at the General Store. “My daughter wants to stop by and get her … Continue reading →

What is wrong with these people? Jonah Lehrer, riding high, invents a quote from Bob Dylan and expects it to pass. Why? Especially when Bob Dylan’s relatively few words, often cryptic and/or mumbled, are so much considered. Jonah Lehrer hasn’t … Continue reading →