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Posted on December 28, 2020April 14, 2021

O Christmas Tree, just what else can you be?

BOXING DAY IS OVER, New Years is just around the corner, and families around the world are all thinking the same thing: time to take down the ornaments and throw out that tree. Doing cursory research and a little back-of-the envelope calculation, I estimate as many as 100 million conifers out on the street, just …

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Posted on December 25, 2020April 14, 2021

Hand-made gifts are the best

IT’S BECOME SOMETHING OF A FAMILY TRADITION to hand-craft our gifts. Since we have been in lockdown for the past umpteen months, there really was no excuse this year. Sister Francine and her husband, Mike, created this beautiful little rabbit out of redwood. They aren’t sure of the genesis of the wood stock, but I’ll …

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Posted on December 24, 2020April 14, 2021

There’s something fishy about these ornaments

SOMEHOW, AMIDST THE FLURRY of moving during a pandemic, settling in a new home, producing new music and a book, we forgot one little thing: decorations for our tree. We were happy enough to have an actual tree. Sherry procured a live specimen and even got it delivered. So that was an accomplishment. But, in …

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Posted on November 19, 2020April 14, 2021

A lumbering tale: From Maine to California

When I was 14 years old, my family relocated from a rural enclave in Connecticut to an even more remote region in the great state of Maine. My siblings and I were a bit dubious about this move, but our parents promised it would be an adventure. We'd have our own 100-acre farm, high on …

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Posted on October 4, 2020April 14, 2021

Nail Guns: Weapons of Mass Construction

GROWING UP, WE HUNG OUT IN Dad's shop a lot. While he was busy building, repairing and usually swearing, we would tinker on our own projects, invariably getting in his way (this may or may not have been at least partly responsible for his profanity). Dad recycled everything. So he always had an old 3-pound …

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