Monthly Archives: August 2026

From Angus yesterday: Sunrise. Two of the villages rather polite ( and usually apolitical ) seventy year olds are heading off in their little red Volvo. He a retired professor of economics, she a designer of fabrics for Harrods. They’ve … Continue reading →

In 1975, a movie filmed in Martha’s Vineyard made people afraid to go into the water. Today, a real animal in Martha’s Vineyard is making people afraid to go outside. “It’s gotten to the point now that grandparents are not … Continue reading →

Some dogs like to chase squirrels. But not all of them do. August 24, 2026

We were at Cornell University for about 8 1/2 years — over fifty years ago. And I still remember the dogs and the squirrels. The dogs were always hopeful, but the squirrels always won. They would often wait until the … Continue reading →

August 22, 2026

Cockroaches have reputaton for being resilient. They’ve been on earth about 320 million years, 100 million years before the dinosaurs. And they’ve survived multiple mass extinctions, including the one that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. It’s hard … Continue reading →

It is really hard to get help up on the land because it’s such a long drive, part of it on bumpy dirt roads. So you can imagine how we felt when Andy discovered this broken (double pane) window. We … Continue reading →

Do you write in cursive very much? I do — almost every day. I’ve read we’re more apt to remember things if we write them rather than type them, and it seems to work for me. Do you think kids … Continue reading →

Yesterday Angus wrote, Outside the golf club we meet our Edinburgh solicitor. I say he’s our solicitor but the firm of lawyers we’ve used forever has been taken over and amalgamated into a large international ‘practice’ as their Scottish outpost. … Continue reading →

than Rat. But that’s easy for me to say because I no longer travel. 🙂 August 17, 2026