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From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
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Artism, wild game and Babs Young
We can pretty much guarantee that this will not be a boring January. Look at the stuff people are getting up to.
An odd sort of winter if you ask me
January 3, 2012
It is an odd sort of winter, but the little kids don't care. They're having a good time sliding on half an inch of snow.
A whole new year full of surprises
January 1, 2012
For starters, I’m remodeling Torch Lake Views. Give me a little minute, OK? You know how it goes when you decide you picked the wrong color paint, and you stepped on the curtain rod and . . . but not to worry. It’s going to be All Right. I’m pretty sure. Here’s something to look […]
Seasons of the Writing Studio and Bait Shop
December 22, 2011
Did you know that George Washington kept a diary? Well, he did, and it was full of scintillating entries like "planted four new cherry trees" and "sharpened hatchet"
Do not panic
December 20, 2011
That is what I tell myself when it is clear that the demands of life are going to exceed the time and resources available. Start the coffee. Go get the paper. Take the Duo for a little walk on the shore.
The sweetness of late autumn
November 22, 2011
This has been an excellent day all the way around—a nice change from some of the others we've had lately. I could unreel it in any direction and enjoy it all over again. It seems worth remembering each of its pleasures, because I suspect there is some other day lurking out there in the dim future when I will need help remembering blessings to count.
Books in Northport
- I don't have much to say.
- It's all in here: the sublime, silly, dangerous, petty, too cute for words, and a shed tear.
- From the Tenth to the Twelfth
- Goodbye, November. Hello, Winter!
- Gratitude and Death
- Deer Season, Among Books
- Time’s Wingèd Chariot
- Looking and Looking and Looking!
- Color/Light and Home in Autumn
- Turn, Turn, Turn
Carsten in Denmark
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Torch Lake Views 
January 5, 2012
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