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Essex-Charlotte Ferry Breaking the Ice
A true North Country winter! The Champlain Valley is blanketed, no… quaint, but no. Rewind. The Champlain Valley is buried beneath another 15-18″ of fresh snow. Beautiful. Picturesque. Unless you’re...
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William Zinsser on Memoir Writing
Though I’ve never met William Zinsser (Writing About Your Life, On Writing Well), he’s been one of my mentors over the last year. In addition to sharing a Deerfield Academy history, his writing and...
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Memoir Darts and Regurgitation
Like many writers and readers I’ve been chewing on Neil Genzlinger’s “Problem With Memoirs” and swinging back and forth between reproach and praise. It’s a provocative piece that continues to provoke...
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The Story of Ferdinand, Revisited
Did you know that Ferdinand the Bull turned seventy five years old on March 31? After posting my “Make Way for Ducklings” video on Rosslyn Redux, several friends mentioned that Robert McCloskey’s...
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2012 New Year’s Resolutions
Resolutions (Image via Wikipedia) Cheers to a razzle-dazzle 2012! I’m saluting the new year with a confession: I failed my top resolution for 2011. There it is. I tried. I failed. Period. But last year...
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Monday Morning Meander
Monday Morning Meander (Image via Wikipedia) My Mondays typically are energetic, frenetic, anxious. All weekend I’ve been building up To Do lists and massaging my timelines, and by the time I crawl...
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Rosslyn in the Desert
Frosty Morning in Abiquiu, New Mexico (Photo credit: Princess Stand in the Rain) As of tomorrow I’m at the halfway point for my desert retreat in Abiquiu, New Mexico. Eleven days in; eleven days to go....
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Productivity, Publishing & Apex Predators
Amazon is going to destroy the Big 6, destroy bookstores, destroy 95% of all agents, destroy distributors (Ingram, Baker & Taylor), and revolutionize the publishing industry by becoming the...
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Rosslyn Redux: May Update
I’ve been a little more quiet than usual during the last month, and I hope that you’ll forgive the frequent ellipses. I’ve shifted gears to focus on a steady stream of Rosslyn programming over at the...
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Photo of the Week?
Rosslyn Boathouse: photo of the week? This is your last chance to fuel my ego! Until next time… This ominous photo of Rosslyn boathouse is in the running for Instacanv.as‘s Photo of the Week and your...
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