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  • Weekend Music: From Framingham to South Africa

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    After hearing two outstanding concerts this weekend, I'm struck by how long it takes me get around to finding good music sometimes. Sunday night I made my first trip to Framingham to hear John Gorka play (Dan Coutier opening – nice job Dan), which gave me the chance to get better aqcuainted with someone I…

  • River Ice

    River Ice

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    My dad sent me these pictures he took a couple weeks ago at the edge of the Red River in Fargo. This "ice artistry" was sculpted by freezing temperatures at the waters crest and and then carefully installed in a gallery of trees as the water slowly receded. Wish I could have been there while…

  • A Week in Yosemite

    A Week in Yosemite

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    We'll, this is fairly late in coming, but I guess I should post something about our trip to Yosemite a week ago. I think I've been avoiding this post because it's so hard to know what to say about such a fantastic place. Perhaps I'll just let the photos speak for themselves, though they don't…

  • Sustainable Waters in a Changing World

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    Yesterday I spend the day "Sustainable Waters in a Changing World " conference at UMass Amherst where I gave a presentation on "Blogging Places: Using Social Media to Foster Place Identification and Share Local Knowledge," my standard place blogging spiel revised for audience of scientists and environmentalists. Here's the abstract: If Henry David Thoreau were…

  • Would Thoreau Blog?

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    If Henry David Thoreau were around today, do you think he would blog? I began thinking about this after reading an interview with Greg Perry, editor of The Blog of Henry David Thoreau. The article leaves that impression that there's a kind of natural correspondence between the Journals and the blog format: Thoreau’s journal seems…

  • Coming into Contact: New Essays in Ecocritical Theory and Practice

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    I received a copy of Coming into Contact: New Essays in Ecocritical Theory and Practice (University of Georgia Press, 2007) in the mail early this week, several years after I wrote my contribution, "Composition and the Rhetoric of Eco-Effective Design," an ASLE conference back in 2003. It's bizarre to finally see it published after not…

  • Spring from the Front Row

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    I must be in the front row. That's what I keep thinking as I bike into spring this week, getting a great view of each gradation of change as I get to work and back. Last week at this time I was facing 6 degree temperatures with a ferocious headwind, but I felt my body…

  • Winter Window

    Winter Window

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    Yesterday’s snow inspired me to take a picture framed by the door to my apartment. It reminded me of a window picture I took a couple years ago at my old house, that time in the fall.

  • Bodily Rhythms

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    Yesterday we spent the day cross-country skiing up at Windblown in NH, the first time on the skis this year. After we had been out for a while and I was cruising across a level spot in the trail, my body reminded me why I love this activity so much–the rhythm of the motion is…

  • Chia Piano

    Chia Piano

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    On our way to Cambridge on Saturday, we drove by a piano sitting in front of a large apartment building on the corner of Monmouth and Canton in Brookline. It was an older Chickering with keys missing and with a sign for "Death Wish Piano Movers" on the bench. A bed of plants had taken…