(Almost) daily reflections from novelist and essayist J.F. Riordan, author of the North of the Tension Line series, and of two books of essays on life, "Reflections on a Life in Exile" and "But Still They Sing". Frequent gratuitous dog photos.
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A Belated Gift
If it’s me, there must be an event coming up, ne c’est-pas? This weekend all the siblings are coming to have an adults weekend and to be here when I finally give my husband his anniversary gift from last year: a portrait of himself.
If the...
What we can’t control
Our annual month of family time centers around the lake. The swimming, the floating, the paddleboards, the kayaks, the sunsets, the wet dogs, the bonfires. And it all started out so well, with a week of absolutely splendid weather.
But ou...
Good neighbors
When we moved to this street twenty-six years ago there was a fine stone house—a cottage, really—lived in by a young family. The property was particularly beautiful because it was set among long lines of sixty foot tall evergreen trees, on...
Summer Idyl
It all has the deep ease of familiarity: sitting in the shade by the lake on a warm afternoon, busy talk briefly interrupted by the resonant glunking of the bullfrog from under our feet beneath the dock; the tumult of pulling the paddle boa...
The French Invasion: Day One
My family jokes that they learn about what’s happening by reading my substack. In an odd turnabout, I woke to news that my stepdaughter, on her way to Wisconsin from France, was interrogated by customs in Amsterdam over the custody of her t...
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J.F. Riordan, award-winning novelist and essayist. Owned by two enormous German Shepherds, Auggie and Eli, who occasionally pose for Gratuitous Dog Photos. Formerly known as @audacityofgoats
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