Earlier this month, I stood alone in the center of the Champlain Bridge. I had ridden there on my bike from my home in Lincoln, Vermont and I gazed for a long while at the lake and the Adirondacks and that land of milk and honey we call Addison County. The sky was cerulean and […]
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Earlier this month, my wife and I were awakened by a mouse. . .in our bed. On my pillow. In truth, it might actually have been the cat that woke us up. Hard to say, in hindsight. She brought the mouse into the bedroom, either because she wanted to share it with us or because […]
Last month I had to endure a lot of manscaping jokes. Friends of mine who are not lucky enough to live here in the 802 — Vermont — kept bringing up the American Time Use Survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Why? Because it showed that Vermonters spend way less time grooming than any […]
This month Goodreads asked me to pick a few books I liked that, for whatever the reason, I grouped together in my mind. I picked narrators who broke my heart. Here is the Goodreads introduction and my five picks. It appeared originally in the Goodreads July newsletter: + + + […]
July 8, 2014 Dear Friends Who Read and Readers Who are Friends, As Heather O’Rourke said in “Poltergeist,” that classic multiplex confection from 1982, “They’re here.” In this case, of course, I mean books. Or, to be very precise, my new book. Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands. . . Is here. Today. Now. Thank you […]
Any day now, a little grackle is going to lift from Julianna Parker’s hands in her backyard in Addison, Vermont and fly away, its long black tail creased in the center into a small V. The creature probably won’t be squawking – before or after liftoff – the way many grackles do, because it’s not […]
“If you need any proof that fiction can scare us, move us, and break our hearts simultaneously – look no further.” – Jodi Picoult July 2, 2014 Dear Friends Who Read and Readers Who are Friends, I hope your summers are off to a wonderful start. Certainly mine has been, enhanced by terrific new books […]
While a lot of the world has been focused on soccer the past couple of weeks, the serious sports aficionados have been gathering in Bristol, Vermont for the most extreme X Game there is: outhouse racing. This coming Friday morning at nine a.m., for the 36th consecutive year, Bristol will celebrate the 4th of July […]
An era came to an end here in Lincoln, Vermont this past Monday morning: Alice Leeds and Donna Woods dismissed their fifth and sixth graders for the last time ever. The pair has been teaching the small elementary school’s two combined fifth- and sixth-grade classes for roughly a decade and a half together. . .and […]
Dear Friends Who Read and Readers Who are Friends, Just in from Bookpage — their review of “Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands.” Here it is, below, in its entirety. A thousand thanks to Bookpage and to Karen Ann Cullotta. Color me very grateful. All the best, Chris B. PS: The novel arrives on July 8. […]
