I’ve now hiked the Pinnacle Trail at Table Rock State Park three times, most recently yesterday when I came about as close to killing myself as I’ve ever done. And no bones about it, if I had slipped the surly bonds, it would have been a clear cut case of redneck suicide. (“Hey, ya’ll, […]
My grandmother on my mother’s side loved daytime drama. “The stories,” she called them, and talked about them as if they were real. Not wink-wink real, but real real. It was a mild form of insanity. Conversations about what the presidential candidates think or feel or what they might do or not do if elected […]
Acadia and I won’t go to Bar Harbor this year, but we will go to Ocracoke Island. We’ll stay at a pet-friendly motel there called The Island Inn and hope that its 32 Trip Advisor “excellent” ratings were posted by people whose reasonable expectations were exceeded, whereas its 28 “terrible” ratings were posted by people […]
