In yesterday’s post about winter in the Catskills, I neglected to mention something important. I’m scared about how it might be when there’s lots of ice and snow here. Will I be cold in this home with radiant heating? Will the people who are supposed to plow the driveway come on time so that we …

November is here. As a northeasterner, it’s long been a month of preparation for the coming cold and a time to build fires (real and metaphorical) to keep the body and spirit warm until Spring. I miss the wood stove we had in our Yorktown Heights, NY home. For nearly two decades, chopping wood and …