WARNING: The following is yet another blog entry about New Year’s resolutions. The author is self-aware and understands that such pieces are hackneyed and cliched, and he totally understands if you’d rather not take the time to read it. I don’t like new year’s resolutions. Or resolutions in general. They’re a set-up for failure, and …
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Why I Write: A Writer Named Chris
I’ve spent a lot of time in the town of Comfort Rock, VT, the past couple of years. To some degree, I've gone there every day over the past two decades. And it’s certainly been around the blog a bit these past few days. Plus plenty more to come. Visiting Comfort Rock feels like going …
Stand in the Place Where You Write
Last weekend my family went into downtown St. Albans, VT, to support Small Business Saturday. We couldn’t care less about the madness of Black Friday, and we’ll take pretty much any excuse to support local businesses. In addition to shopping at great places like The Eloquent Page, As the Crow Flies, and Moonshadows, we discovered …
THANKSREADING 2018: Recipe for Gratitude
And here we are. Thanksgiving Day. Boil the essence of this holiday down, and for me, it’s about making food for people I love. Cooking and baking as an expression of gratitude. “I made this for you because I am thankful for you.” This year I’m making food for my wife, daughter, youngest son, step-daughter, …
THANKSREADING 2018: Absolute Prefection
Being a 13-year old, American farmboy dabbling in British humor for the first time, I can probably be forgiven for assuming it was a typo. For assuming it was a typo that went consistently unnoticed across a series of four novels, I can probably be considered an idiot. I thought his name was Ford Perfect. …
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