While tagging along to the guitar store a few months back, I fell in love with a bubblegum pink (Hello) KittyCaster. Yeah, it’s a cheap, Fender-sanctioned-Stratocaster-knockoff with a horrible pickup, but with something that obnoxious smiling at you from the guitar stand across the room, how could anyone resist picking it up? The first song [...]
Yesterday I got stuck for the ump-teenth time with my brand-new Yaris. This has been the winter from Hell, but I’ll admit that the Yaris wasn’t a wise choice for me. I knew it in the beginning, but figured that 40-mpg would be well worth the trade-off. Full disclaimer: I live on a steep, one-lane, [...]
I am brand new to sculling (I just entered my third week of rowing on the Connecticut River) and am learning not only about how to keep my boat stable, but also about the rowing culture. During my two-day Learn-to-Scull class, my coach introduced us to the etiquette that governs river travel. What I have [...]
Last year, I talked my husband Cliff into joining me at the Craftsbury Outdoor Center’s Learn To Row Day. I had already rowed about 200,000 meters (or about 124 miles) on my Concept II erg, and was anxious to try out rowing on water. It was a chilly, drizzly spring day, but I had so [...]
It’s been exactly one month (and three days) since I recorded an interview with my grandmother. I was inspired by the StoryCorps project and had dreamed of going to one of the mobile recording booths with her. Days after the booth left her area, she was diagnosed with cancer. I immediately took time off from [...]
