The following piece originally appeared on the Living the Legacy blog at fhich.org. I figured I'd share it here as well in the spirit of the season. The saying goes that it’s better to give than receive. You hear it a lot during the holiday season, and it often gets relegated to cliché status. It’s …
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The Comfort Rock Chronicles, Vol. 1
In October 2018, I began writing an ongoing series of short stories called The Comfort Rock Chronicles. Based in the fictitious northern Vermont town of Comfort Rock, this series tells the story of Lauren Comstock, a girl who lives on a dairy farm in town. Last Christmas, I compiled the first ten pieces into one …
Some Wonderful People Need Your Help
If you only read one thing I write on my blog, please make it this one. I’m pulling the curtain way back today, and I’m asking each of you to help out some folks in a time of great need. For the past six months or so, I’ve been working at Franklin Homestead & Carriage …
A Soundtrack for the Strange & Profound Beauty of Difficult Times, pt. 2
We went for a walk yesterday afternoon. My wife, my daughter, our dog, and me. It was a little after 3:30, with an hour or so of light before the too-long-dark settled in. We were in a nearby town forest, with a few clearly marked trails. There was no reason to end up lost. But …
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Thanksreading 2020: The Un-bear-able Lightness of Reading
Something was wrong. It was the winter of 1985-’86, and I was really sick. Like, REALLY sick. I missed weeks and weeks of school, made numerous trips to different doctors and specialists, and filled countess tubes of blood for testing. What was the diagnosis? There wasn’t one. We still don’t know what was going on. …
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