Author Archives: jorysquibb

Iceboating is not just about iceboating……roaring, rattling, bashing across ice….….it’s also about community….it may even be fundamentally about community….many of us humans–especially we of the male gender—need a context around which to nucleate community….and monday on Plymouth was like that…. … Continue reading →

6AM….Brenda’s honey-do list to me: XXXXXXXXXXX (very important!) YYYYYYYYYYY (long overdue!) ZZZZZZZZZZZZ (absolute must!) and P.S., mister gluten-free retired person, cook a nice dinner for your working-class, and still-working wife……OR ELSE!….even my pre-caffinated brain could read between those lines…. …..chasened, … Continue reading →

Just Checking This morning I’m off to check the ice though I’m darned if I know why the mercury’s yoyo-ing madly its numbers way too high this house, though lovely, feels a cage my work-out’s a deadly bore and somehow … Continue reading →

As I look out at the rain/snow/ice mix on my back steps….and scan the weather ahead… woefully devoid of extended hard freezes…i am still enchanted by our inaugural days on Plymouth Pond…i remember journalling the next morning: > couldn’t sleep … Continue reading →

when our lovely Plymouth Pond Offers with her magic wand to leave our doldrums far beyond let’s not delay a single day the coming thaws will have their say we’ll have our break soon anyway and so, dear Plymouth, I’ll … Continue reading →