by Carole Duff | Sep 11, 2012 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Local or Human Interest, Nature |
On this anniversary of an event that shook the world, I think about basic necessities. Not so much the lovely gourmet wine, bread and cheese bistro of which I have written previously but medieval peasantry basics: food, warmth and cleanliness. How easy to forget the...
by Carole Duff | Sep 3, 2012 | Writing and Reading |
Completing a months-long project, meeting a difficult goal, walking out of a final exam, filing a major brief, an institution-wide evaluation or a huge end-of-the-year report, and you feel elated, yahoo, relieved, whew, right? Not me, unless you include tired,...
by Carole Duff | Aug 27, 2012 | Faith, Nature, Writing and Reading |
This past weekend at Vanaprastha, rain gently soaked the mountain landscape. Water dripped off gable ends, travelled through gutters and drainpipes and coursed down ditches along the driveway. During downpours, gullies also appeared, moving organic debris, soil and...
by Carole Duff | Aug 21, 2012 | Family, Writing and Reading |
When I lived in Baltimore, my neighborhood book club read Ian McEwan’s Atonement. A few years later, I saw the movie. Ah, if only I could write with McEwan’s fine precision and capture the film’s brilliant cinematographic scenes. But there was a problem: I hated the...
by Carole Duff | Aug 13, 2012 | Nature, Writing and Reading |
How to grow up in one piece, a 40-page book of quirky advice about people and everyday things, is one of my all-time favorite books. Read by adults but written as if for the uninitiated, that is, for children, Robert Paul Smith’s humor permeated my youth in the...
