Category Building

Set Day

It got done! Thanks to the drivers, the crane guys, the set crew, the GC, the policeman, the Temple, the people from National Grid, the kind neighbors, and to the lovely visitors, callers and texters who accompanied us on this…








A Poem for Building a House

The Guest House, by Rumi (Translated by Coleman Barks in The Essential Rumi) This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome…








The House @ Huntington Homes

I went to the see the house under construction at Huntington Homes in Vermont on June 6th. Adam walked me through. I reached there in about 3 1/2 hours from Boston, thanks in part to the loan of my sister’s…