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Four decades
My last-minute, still-wracked-by-indecision, perfect 40th birthday celebration: hiking at Sheep Hill and Mt. Greylock, swimming in the Green River, making the most of our AirBnB, the Bennington monument, maple creamees at Billy T’s, and James Taylor at Tanglewood to wrap it all up.
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On baked goods
The other day I was in line at a French bakery over in Mountain Brook. As I waited to pick out my cookies the conversation between an older gentleman and the woman waiting on him turned heated; he apparently was disappointed to learn that the bakery did not sell crescent rolls and was not happy…
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A Shark Rock for All Seasons
So I still can’t really believe it, but the Mastheads (a writers’ residency and public humanities project in Berkshire County) chose my teeny poem to be on a billboard. It’s on Elm Street in Pittsfield, at an intersection I’ve passed through possibly thousands of times, and not far from Herman’s house. When I saw their…