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A Walk Through Steep Acres on e.e. cummings’ New Hampshire Summer Retreat

February 26, 2017 No Comments

A walk through Steep Acres, on Joy Farm, in New Hampshire. This was e. e. cummings’ Summer retreat, and the property, houses, and burnt out ruins are oozing with stories…

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  • —AND we’ve got another book lover in the family! Nonna and Logan discussing the merits of asking a question in a book but never answering it...hmm. Well, Logan said you’re reading to me and it’s about all kinds of trucks, so it’s cool!
  • Visiting Kalettas today sure was a fun time for Nonna and Ava. The toys are cool, Miss Jackie is fun and happy, and maybe Ava made a new friend or two (look at the pink poodle peeking around the corner!).We came home with a beautiful Advent calendar. We love to shop at Kaletta’s! @shopkalettas
  • The obsession is real, Folks. Vui’s Kitchen Chicken & Cabbage Salad with unsweetened Ginger Hibiscus Tea. Savoring every real, clean chop-bite. Come visit me. Ask me to take you here. I’ll say yes. When the Music Cat’s away...
  • Baked Brie stuffed with apricot jam and almond slivers. My go-to to the party. 👩🏻‍🍳 Recipe for “How to Make Baked Brie” on my website: https://bit.ly/2DHpY6R
  • Thankful for a down day...some work in my pjs by the fire, sauna, early dinner and wonderful clean margarita at char, and chatting about the future with my hubby. Guess I’m a grown up now. Ready for the holiday, though I’ll be missing my family and the Yankee spread my mom puts on. Practicing gratefulness. I hope you are too.
  • I’m addicted to #infaredsauna . Now I consider it part of my constant quest for optimal wellness—that and ditching red meat! What a difference. Do you IR sauna? @puresweatfloatstudio @sunlightensaunas
  • Welcome, You Autumn Gusts and Rumpled Sun-Saturated Leaves. Mama’s ready.
  • Time for some self-care @franklinwheelhouse
  • Almost #ongoldenpond with writing and travel buddy @anna_urquhart We might have been working up the courage to move...to say Silver Lake is cold is an understatement, but the water is so clear and invigorating! I was channeling Kate Hepburn and Jane Fonda every moment. #nearsquamlake #bucketlist
  • Barns and their people...
  • Near Silver Lake, New Hampshire, once again for our 3rd annual Joy Farm Writer’s Salon. Thank you Liza Mattison, the Mattisons, and e. e. cummings’ for the welcome and wonderful space to face down the blank pages. It’s more than that, though. It’s a community of writers who love words and conversation and this place. It’s the cool air and turning leaves and laughter. It’s the quiet and the four foot fires. It’s the homegrown food and cocktail hours and dinner conversations. It’s the vista of White Mountains and Northernness. It’s the professors who have become friends and the wisdom that abounds. I imagine us old one day, meeting here for another Autumn salon, with more publishing credits and a longer trail of students or mentees behind us, welcoming new writers, like Elder Writespeople, into this space. And, one day, it will hold tales of skinny dipping in Silver Lake at night and me finally stepping into my own golden pond.
  • My writing room (and sometimes guest room) is coming together suddenly. Maybe about halfway finished but ready to inhabit! It has all the essentials...a simple desk with a cool, smooth marble top, bookshelves, good lighting, a bathroom, a window with blinds,a record player, a day bed to stare at the ceiling for answers, and a door...just wants cozied up with a rug and my lucky silk curtains. The DIY project begging to be done is to cover the entire wall opposite my desk with cork to plot my latest story. WDYT? And oh, yes, I found a place for my spare Nespresso machine. See ya next year! 😆👏🏻☕️🌠✍🏼

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