by admin | Oct 20, 2011 | News
The dunes of North Carolina’s Outer Banks are a dramatic setting for a wedding. The whitecaps of the inrushing sea, whipped up by steady Atlantic trades, raise their ceaseless voices to the wind. Tight formations of pelicans patrol the skies. The constant...
by admin | Oct 13, 2011 | News
In 1984, when I went off to college, I took along the fancy typewriter that had gotten me through high school: a Brother Correctronic with the magical ability to remember – and erase — an entire line of typing. Erasing a regrettable sentence on the...
by admin | Oct 6, 2011 | News
As a setting for a wedding, the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, is hard to beat. The main hotel is a magisterial white wood-framed lodge that looks like a luxury steamship run aground on a golf green. It’s the kind of resort with long...
by admin | Sep 29, 2011 | News
“Genius” is a word people use to describe a phenomenon beyond their understanding, a way of knowing or creating that seems superhuman. But surely dogged persistence, the single-minded pursuit of a cherished idea or goal that spans years —...
by admin | Sep 22, 2011 | News
This morning, I woke with a tedious sinus headache, along with a question, “What is pain, exactly?” The headache wasn’t hard to explain. This is high ragweed season. I happen to be severely allergic to ragweed, which means that my body mistakes the...
by admin | Sep 15, 2011 | News
People will ask: where do your columns come from? Writing — or, to put it another way, connecting the world around us to the world we carry inside — is a mysterious process, but I can say a few things about how it happens for me. Often a column will start...
