Category: Travel
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A Complex Day in Monteal

Yesterday, we went to Montreal, a marvelous, if notoriously inaccessible, city for the day. We had planned to be in a workshop focused on using puppetry for working with businesses. Montreal is about two hours from here, so we were up early, aiming to leave by 6 o’clock. We finally made it out of the…
Michael Watson PhD
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Maple Sugaring

On Easter we visited friends at their sugar house in the mountains in the eastern part of the state. The day started out cloudy and raw, but the afternoon turned comfortable and the sun was bright and warm. We were delayed, and reached the sugar house a bit late. Inside, the sugar house was…
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Mud Season
Winter wanes, not that we ever really had winter this year. Still, the light arrives earlier and departs later each day, and the cold lessens. We are on the brink of mud season. For the past couple of weeks the temperature has vacillated from very cold to unseasonably warm. Each storm has brought rain instead…
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Paris In Winter

Yesterday, while at the university library, I chanced upon a lovely book of prose and watercolors with the beguiling title, Paris In Winter. In its pages, the author, David Coggins, takes the reader through several winter vacations in the great city. Along the way we discover that David and his wife, Wendy, have been traveling…
Michael Watson PhD
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