Month: May 2022

  • KOP: Henry and Elena

    The engineer and the ballerina. Son of New England old money and daughter of a Romanian goat herder. He graduated from MIT at nineteen, she was dancing en pointe at nine. He was touring Europe studying great engineering and design, she was touring Europe in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Love at first sight. A love…

  • Fifty shades of shade

    There was a curious, odd-shaped corner of the yard I studied all winter that begged to be rescued from the banality of growing grass. It longed to be free, the kind of free that produces perennials and flowering shrubs. I had some ideas including the perfect color palette. Finally, it was spring. The forsythia did…

  • Is it raining in Winamac?

    Three summers ago, we had precious little rain from late June until well into the fall. Grousing with neighbors in August on the impact to the lake level and on our ability to enjoy the lake (while waiting for a couple racks of ribs to smoke), a wise man who is a retired farmer (redundant,…

  • KOP: Beeboo and El-Beth

    We meet the Bonomo sisters, Margaret and Elizabeth, when Gizmo introduces Scott to the kids gathered for the first baseball game of the season at Dalriada. Gizmo tried to get the attention of a girl in an Operation Ivy t-shirt listening to a Walkman on headphones. “Beeboo! Beeboo!” No response. “She’s the best pitcher in…