Posts filed under SNOW!

I feel like I’m waking up from some kind of dream/hallucination in which I had major surgery to remove my appendix while 4 months pregnant; went to two Thanksgivings; celebrated my husband’s 30th and my 29th birthdays; took care of a child with a cold and a double ear infection; wrote a statistics paper and [...]

Some seasons get along very well. I imagine that summer and autumn are very congenial, the former being a life-of-the-party type while the latter its stalwart companion and designated driver. After several months of long, raucous days and temperate nights, summer is all too happy to be tucked into bed by easy-going autumn, a glass [...]

Dense snows big on sop but short on stature
coat the world like a sweatpanted loafer
who is no more than a belly scratcher
sagging jobless on his parents’ sofa.
(That last line rhymes when read by a Mainer.
People here play Three Card Monte with Rs;
removing some to make words sound plainer
and suping up others like pimped out cars.)
Winter [...]

You’re going to notice some changes here at FHTP over the next few weeks. I have been working offline on a new theme as this one is getting a bit stagnant for me. Things will look much the same, but the backend of things will be a whole lot sweeter. I wasted [...]

Before Maine, Megan and I lived in Vermont. For much of my Connecticut family, moving to these northern reaches of New England is tantamount to moving to Siberia or the Himalayas. Some ask us if we had snow in August. Others maintain the belief that I commute to work via dog sled. But with global [...]