By Joel Mortenson, Becketwood Member One way to think of your brain is as a categorization machine. It makes associations and comparisons and says this fits here and that fits there. As a species survival tool it was good to know that a wagging tail was friendly and bared teeth was not. We are continually […] Read more
By Carol Bechtel, Becketwood Member Introduction: In October 2000 my husband Dave and I left our dock near the Chesapeake Bay and began our cruising life, i.e., living aboard our 37-foot sloop Crimson Cloud and heading for warmer climes. I was scared. I kept a journal. By the winter of 2003 and the following journal […] Read more
By Dee Schaefer, Becketwood Member (Dee Schaefer was appointed a Fulbright Teaching Assistant in the English Department at the University of Besançon in the Jura Mountains, France, in 1959-60.) If Madame Douge’s kitchen had not been so spacious and her dining room so inviting, I wonder if I would have tried to prepare an American […] Read more
By Dolores Schaefer, Becketwood Member This autumn afternoon, I cleaned out the fruit bin in my kitchen refrigerator. Nestled in the back, I found half a bag of organic apples—all shriveled and rubbery. As I held an apple in my hand, my thoughts drifted to the Jura Mountains in eastern France where Madame Douge opened […] Read more
By Carol Masters, Becketwood Member Walking the neighborhood in the early summer mornings brings many delights, moments to stop and admire a boulevard garden or odd arrangement of stones and shadows or, at home, the variety in our Member Gardens. But I was more than delighted earlier this summer when I reached my own plot […] Read more
