As I am about to (or just have) formally launch this blog, please
allow me to introduce myself.
Originally a Flatlander from Massachusetts, I have lived in rural
New Hampshire for 47 years, the last 41 of which in the town of Rumney (population
1,480 at the last census [just under 900 when I got here]). When Flatlanders
come to the state, they are barely tolerated by the old-timers because they
bring 'their ways' with them). "Spend your money and go home!" is the
still-present cry of some. I have endured because I have tried to adapt to
NH rather than the other way around.
I am the third most interesting person in the world. The first is
that guy in those beer ads. You know, the guy who taught his dog to bark in three
languages, the guy who has aliens asking him to probe them,
and the guy who can play Mozart on the drums. The second most interesting is
all of you! Everyone has a tale to tell. And then there's me.
My daughter taught me a new word/concept: sonder (noun)
- sonder is the realization that each random
passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their
own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story
that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground,
with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know
existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the
background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at
dusk.
I am a retired high school Language Arts teacher and an occasionally published writer with pieces having appeared in A 6th Bowl of Chicken
Soup for the Soul (turned into a segment on the Chicken Soup TV series), Yankee
magazine, Grit magazine, and various New Hampshire newspapers and tourist
publications. Besides my writing, I am also a Justice of the Peace and a former New Hampshire Bail Commissioner. I am currently ‘casually working’ (an
oxymoron?) on several writing projects.
Questions? Ask away.
Welcome!
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