Glide to Grow
“It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.”
Essays
How Covid is Making Us a Bit More Norwegian
Late last April, a few weeks into our period of pandemic-induced self-isolation, I was struck hard by a moment of déjà vu. My wife, Rachel, and I were on a forested dirt road about a… Read More »How Covid is Making Us a Bit More Norwegian
The Dark Times: A Note from the Editor
Late on a gray Sunday afternoon, hiking up a freshly brush-hogged trail beneath the white, rimed peak of Vermont’s Mt. Mansfield, a friend asked how I planned to get through this winter’s darkness. A second-year… Read More »The Dark Times: A Note from the Editor
The Big Difference: In an unprecedented winter, the greatest change might be a welcomed one
I’m getting excited for the first snowfall. But this season has the Big Difference. How much will things be changed due to the pandemic? It depends on which gang of friends I talk to. For… Read More »The Big Difference: In an unprecedented winter, the greatest change might be a welcomed one
Season of Change: A Note from the Editors
Was he an ice skater? Possibly. A skier? No. But in the opening line of A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens easily could have been describing the progress of last winter: “It was the… Read More »Season of Change: A Note from the Editors
Setting Tracks and Changing Lanes
As I was sitting at my desk, getting ready to send my second edit of Slide the Keweenaw back to Hansi Johnson with a couple comments, a subject line in my inbox caught my eye:… Read More »Setting Tracks and Changing Lanes