When we first moved to western Washington state, we were greeted by a certain odor along the stretch of I-5 between Olympia and Seattle....

Today we inaugurate a new president at the University of Puget Sound, the culmination of a project I've worked on for the last six...

There are a lot of places I love in Exeter - and unapologetically so, as there are so many places there worth loving. Among these is...

In 2010 we left New Hampshire for Sarah's military medical career, and we've had a few addresses in the seven years since - two in...

There are few places in the seacoast, indeed in all of New Hampshire, where the past and the future come together with the vibrant energy...

There's no way that's the real name of it - I just made that up. In fact, I doubt there ever was a name for that ballfield out behind the...

The Flume is New Hampshire's real-life Rivendell, eight hundred feet of waterfall-carved Conway granite walls looming eighty feet up and...

In putting this list together I've been a little surprised and not a little sobered to realize how many entries don't exist any more. I...

First off - and anyone who's been on a course with me knows this - I am a horrific golfer. A military golfer (left-right-left-right) with...

I've attended my share of schools in New Hampshire - UNH, Exeter High, Exeter Junior High, Stratham Memorial School. We'll get to all of...

It's all shiny and new over there now, between the Fox Run Mall and the Crossings at Fox Run, with the huge cineplex and all the...

I've always been partial to Water Street in Exeter as the quintessential New Hampshire downtown (I know Portsmouth has its adherents, and...