Willard Earle Dezotelle, Sr. Today we celebrated the life of my grandfather, Willard Earle Dezotelle, Sr. His funeral was held in a tiny, country church in Waterville, VT, the town he and his late wife – my grandmother – Delia Dezotelle called home for decades. Their ashes were buried together in a lovely cemetery in …
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Deep Cut
I’m on vacation this week, and one of my goals is sorting through various writing projects – all in various stages of completion – and refocusing my efforts as I head into summer and getting my first novel ready for an editor’s eyes.The piece I’m sharing here was written four years ago tomorrow, which is …
With Apologies to Hornby: March 2019
Books readAn American Harvest: How One Family Moved from Dirt-Poor Farming to a Better Life in the Early 1800s – Cardy Raper Books Bought/Found/GivenPolitical Fictions– Joan DidionFunny, You Don’t Look Autistic: A Comedian’s Guide to Life on the Spectrum – Michael McCreary This happens every year. February ends, and I exhale a big sigh of …
Why I Write: Summer 1990, pt. 2
Sitting in the cab of the TW-10 Ford tractor, I cranked the volume on the radio to hear it over the sound of the machinery running behind me, churning out freshly chopped grass. I was just in time to hear Jack Barry introduce his guest for the next segment. He was an author. But not …
Why I Write: Summer 1990, pt. 1
If you’ve ever had to unload a wagon full of freshly chopped grass into a concrete haylage bunker, you know there’s a trick to it. To get a decent row of wet, green grass fed out along the open front of the bunker, you need to maneuver the tractor and the wagon behind it back …
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