Forced myself to go to Holy Trinity in Middletown even though I craved sitting in the studio sun, watching Sunday morning interview shows. I haven't picked up a paintbrush all winter. I have mostly been consumed with getting over an unspecified virus that has variously wreaked havoc with my energy, my bronchial tubes and probably my immune system. ( Read more... )

I spent nine straight days in Middletown, the longest period of time since the start of my lease nearly a year ago. And, the most time that I have spent there in cold weather. The first thing that I noticed when I unlocked the door at around 3PM on Friday the 13th was that the temperature in the studio read 67 degrees. Not at all what I was ( Read more... )

I was in New York this week just long enough to host a Middle-Class Support Group meeting at my apartment which was truncated at the last minute, due to the leader/facillitator having to take his young daughter to the emergency room. I had been in Middletown the previous Sunday and made it to services at Church of the Holy Trinity on Main Street. ( Read more... )

I'm starting to make friends. There's Nancy, the seventy-plus widow who moved here to be closer to her grandchildren; and there was Peter, my next door neighbor who was thoughtful enough to loan me a hardcover copy of "Grant" by Ron Chernow. I was about threee quarters of my way through the book when it became obvious six weeks ago that Peter would ( Read more... )