Category Archives: The Roost

Early this morning, as I do a lot of mornings, I walked out into the parcel of conservation land, formerly part of a farm, behind my house in Wayland. I didn’t want to miss what could be the last frost of this season. Continue reading →

Last week in my introductory post, I suggested (only half jokingly) that I launched this blog “because I wished to blog deliberately.” Don’t worry, I’m not really going to write a Walden parody — for one thing, the competition is too intimidating; how could I top this? But I’ve been thinking that I should say a few more specific things about what I’m planning to do here (you know, just to “manage expectations,” as they say), and what it might actually mean to blog deliberately. Continue reading →

First, a big, sincere thanks to everyone who came out for Vivian Gornick yesterday and made our first Thoreau Farm Forum a great success. We had a very nice turnout, a highly engaged audience, and of course a famously engaging speaker (and topic!). Continue reading →