Some Days Are Better Than Others
I woke up with words and sun in the window and a story to write (maybe I’ll write it) about Eileen married to farmer named Jim very beautiful Eilee...
Tag: Middlefield
How Much Do You Know About the People Next Door
When we bought our house woman down the road mother of triplets in their forties she’d had three husbands came to visit another neighbor whispered that sh...
Upstate Grammar
One of the ways I have been describing life in upstate New York is by talking about the people. The question of What’s True and What Isn’t True alwa...
Maybe Middlefield Maybe Something Else
Ever since we arrived in our house thirty years ago, I’ve tried to describe this kind of love to you. Thirty years I have tried to tell you about love, wh...
Maybe 211
Yesterday someone suggested that I think of the unruly unwieldy uneverything upstate novel more like a graphic novel. I’m wondering if it can be people po...
Every Person (in New York and Elsewhere)
In 2008 Jason Polan started a drawing project called EVERY PERSON in NEW YORK (everypersoninnewyork.blogspot.com). He’s drawing us all. Some people are fa...