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apples & oranges (opens the original)
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I’m back Santa Fe with the August blues again. It’s good to be home, but I sure do miss the cottage.There must be a name for the melancholy of leaving home and returning home at the same time. It’s happens every year: saying goodbye to our snug boathouse, the simplicity of island life, family and friends, so much writing, and the water. Always the water.This summer, though, I miss the roads just as much. I never thought I’d say that. The roads in this part of Ontario are boring farm roads with u
cottage chronicles #4: farewells (opens the original)
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I woke up before my alarm. It was the first time I’d set one all summer. I like to wake naturally when the sun rises over the sumac and maples and streams through the window and directly into my eyes. This morning, though, was grey. It was raining, a steady wind clipping in from the north. It was only the second or third rainy morning we’d had all summer, and it was the last one. We were leaving.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!d-vt!,f_au
cottage chronicles #3: the lost art of visiting (opens the original)
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This week there’s been a lot of visiting. There’s always a lot of visiting at Stony Lake.Visiting is a particular sort of social interaction. It’s less than a date, more than small talk. It requires little to no advance planning and nothing fancy—no charcuterie boards or clever cocktail napkins, hostess gifts, or even shoes. It costs nothing more than time. The only agenda is catching up.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vY_B!,f_auto,q_aut
cottage chronicles, pt 2 (opens the original)
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I just finished writing piece about loons for this week’s post and then realized I wanted to send it out for submission. So that’s what I did. As with all things at the cottage, it’s weather-dependent. We’ll see what the wind brings. Either way, I hope you’ll be reading it here in some form or another soon.Meantime, let’s talk about my formula for summer flow. It’s simple:Read, ride, write.Repeat.Every summer at the cottage is different, and it’s the same every year. In first couple of
cottage chronicles, part 1 (opens the original)
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There’s an unspoken rule at the cottage that you don’t check the weather in advance. Ask about the forecast, and no one seems to know or care. An offhanded wave, a half shrug of the shoulders. The weather is the weather here, whether you check it or not. The one exception is when a storm’s coming. You can feel it before you see it. A heaviness in the air, the sky heaving under its own cumbersome weight. That’s your cue: Check radar, wind direction, lightning strikes, scan the digital skies for E
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