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Ballad of the Spine Pig: A Porcupine Offers a Lesson in Immortality

Thursday, April 1, 2021 Dan Szczesny 0

COMMENTARY We came upon a dead porcupine recently… freshly dead most likely, the poor fellow well preserved but still soft, his brown and tan quills swaying in the forest wind. My daughter had never seen READ MORE

Blowin’ in the Martian Wind: On capturing a tiny slice of red stardust

Monday, March 1, 2021 Dan Szczesny 0

Still, wind on Mars is neither an angry backyard bug nor a path toward her being an astronaut. What I hope it is though is the beginning of knowledge, of what Ralph Waldo Emerson called a “happy talent.” READ MORE

Lazy Brain Days: Sometimes success is measured by letting go

Monday, February 1, 2021 Dan Szczesny 2

The answer is not to work harder no matter what, not to push through despite your emotional and physical exhaustion. Rather, we’ve attempted to turn to our Lazy Brain in an effort to set new expectations, to create an environment appropriate to the time in which we live. READ MORE

The Madeleine Effect: A warm kitchen, a hungry child and the mystery of food memory

Sunday, January 3, 2021 Dan Szczesny 0

Something powerful can happen in these moments, especially now in a new year. In particular, coming off a challenging time, our catalog of memories in these days of isolation is what we have available to build upon. And now, as it was then, the potency of food memory is available through small, personal moments; a warm kitchen in a small town, as the snow falls outside our window, eating simple food with people you love and who love you back. READ MORE

Step boldly: It’s time to welcome in a new year and make it yours

Tuesday, December 29, 2020 Dan Szczesny 0

Twenty-twenty comes screaming to an end, a confusing, raging inferno of a year. This was a year that will be talked about only in hushed whispers by future generations. This was a year of forced mindfulness, where each day, sometimes each hour, appeared to signal some new cosmic shift – like being blindfolded, without a seatbelt, on a roller coaster. READ MORE

Little makes a big contribution

Monday, May 15, 2017 Dan Szczesny 0

In 1869, a prominent Manchester lawyer by the name of William Little – a well read man with an office right on Elm Street and a deep interest in meteorology – found himself in the position of being able to make a deep and historic contribution to Mount Washington history. Though he didn’t know it at the time. READ MORE

The Tragic Story of the Hesitant Photographer

Wednesday, May 3, 2017 Dan Szczesny 0

“But something went terribly wrong. Peppersass had made it just passed the ladder when the old girl huffed her last breath. A tooth snapped perhaps, a gear bolt jumped the track and when she came down, there was nothing but the gravity between the men crowded into the contraption and the base camp one mile down. Peppersass had only one brake system and try as they might, the engineer – an aptly named big man named Jack Frost – could not slow her down. So they jumped, all of them, except Daniel Rossiter.” READ MORE