My visiting aunt didn’t understand why it was such a big deal. “It’s just an ice cream window.”But to me, it wasn’t just an ice cream window. It...
I’ve always called them ladybugs. It wasn’t until a friend corrected me last year did I learn that the red spotted insects crawling around my...
The best part of the corn maze for my niece was getting lost. “Wrong turn!” she’d yell with a smile. We’d turn around and trace back our steps. But...
In coastal communities, they live The Salt Life. Pickup trucks drive around with bumper stickers proclaiming their allegiance to the ocean. But in...
I haven’t slept well in more than a month. And I can tell you that at 4 o’clock in the morning, there’s not much going on in the Upper Valley. Few...
At the end of the summer, I take pleasure in purging my house of summer leftovers. The half-used bottle of sunscreen. The never-inflated beach...
I have an Upper Valley friend who makes me smile. She’s lived in South Royalton her entire life on a road named after her family. She loves to...
You don’t know cold water until you’ve been dunked in a tank. A few years ago, I volunteered to spend 30 minutes in the Norwich carnival dunk tank....