I wanted to send a reminder that I will be at the Andover Bookstore tomorrow, March 16, at 1 pm with my friend Sara Epstein, author of the poetry book Bar of Rest. Light refreshments will be provided. Join us for readings and a good chat about important things! March is an anniversary month for …
Happy New Year! How are you faring as we begin another turn around the sun? Surely there is much to be carrying in our hearts about the state of the world, as I talked a bit about in the last Grace Notes. But the state of the outer world is not what has my attention …
Upcoming News: Our next Grace Street Event is coming up on 11/30 from 6–7:45, at the Forbes Library in Northampton, MA. The reading will be cosponsored with the Cancer Connection, with some of the proceeds going to support their work. Books are available at Broadside Books in Northampton, or by ordering through Andover Bookstore, Belmont …
Well, I set out around the year’s end to “take some time” during the holidays fully intending to pick up writing and Grace Street threads in the early new year. And … drum roll …. Here we find ourselves in … August! There are several ways to look at this break and my brain has shown …
We are back from long-planned travels in celebration of some milestone birthdays and a 25th wedding anniversary, which we took with our dear family and friends, Rosie and Michael. Our trip across the pond to London and the Cotswolds was, as they’d say over there, “brilliant!” Full of wonder and history and walking and spring blooms …
Well, to nick a phrase from Garrison Keillor, it’s been a quiet month in Grace Street land. A lovely quiet holiday season—oh bliss! No travel outside the fifteen-minute drive to our near-and-dear for Christmas, followed by an equally quiet New Year’s weekend and month of January. After a bursting-busy year of unanticipated adventures, it felt …
How can it be December already? It’s not possible! Yet, here we are. How do you fare when the light shortens and the air turns brisk? I find myself pulling out the candles and the twinkle lights and needing—and taking comfort in—winter’s quietude. As much as we are surrounded by our jingly-jangly consumer culture (Is …
Have you ever seen a more astonishingly beautiful October? One where, if you went for a walk you just kept gasping inside and wanting to call out to your fellow walkers: “Isn’t this amazing?!” Or if you were driving across the state to western Mass, the usually 2 1/2-hour drive took you 4 hours because …
Well, if we had a bright red Breaking News banner here at Grace Notes, it would be this: We are thrilled to announce that we are now on the calendar with Belmont Books in Belmont, for an evening of reading from Grace Street and conversation with Maryanne O’Hara, author of Little Matches: A Memoir of …
June 2022 was a glimmeringly beautiful month here in New England, and I was occupied with taking Grace Street “on the road” for readings and the engaged, sometimes tender discussions that followed. Like with any good road trip, we collected photos along with way to share with you. From the cheerful (hello, Covid creativity!) book-club-in-a-garage …