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They had us at "Robots."
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We'd never heard of this company, in Royalton, Vermont. But they'd set an open house, to show off their robot workforce. So we drove down I-89, to see kissing cousins of R2-D2 and C-3PO.
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Richard's latest novel, Caliban Rising, a thriller, has a plot driven by artificial intelligence, controlling squads of robots. It reflects the  unease many of -
Blog postJoyce and I recently visited an old friend from Florida at her new home in Virginiaâa "lifecare" facility, offering varying degrees of care depending on need.
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Our friend's husband died, and soon after she contracted a disorder that, for all practical purposes, left her paralyzed. She didn't give up. Through rigorous physical therapy, and determination that amazed the staff, she regained her ability to walk and to care for herself. She graduated -
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I walked into our pinewoods to look at felled treesâtwo years ago, a freak windstorm devastated this forest, leaving heaps of dead wood.Â
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Blog postA friend asked meâwhy, in most of your husbandâs novels, is one character a Pembroke Welsh corgi?
And the answer is: âItâs personal.â
Sometimes that dog character is Henry. Sometimes heâs Tobi. But his real nameâhe was a real dogâwas Nosmo.
âNosmo King,â in full, chosen by his previous family because they quit smoking and named him for a âNo Smokingâ sign. Not a -
Blog postJoyce awoke in the night and looked out the window. She saw a full moon, shining on fresh snow.
I lay half-asleep. Then Joyce gasped. I bolted out of bed to see what alarmed her.
âSomethingâs out there,â she said.
I saw only snow. Then, behind the pond, I saw a shape, indistinct in the moon-cast shadows, but something huge.
Massive shoulders hunched, it glided across the snow. Â Read MoreÂ
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Blog postOur good friend and frequent visitor, Murdock Morse, sends his holiday greetings to all.
Go romp in the snow, he says. It feels good!
--Joyce & Richard
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Blog postGracie Duke--another good friend of ours--wants to second her pal Murdock's message: celebrate!
It's the darkest days of the year, she says. So get out there and bark! Bark for the return of the light!. Bark loud! It'll come!
Joyce & Richard
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Blog postWeâve been doing some autumn cleaning, looking into attic boxes and little-used drawers and closets, and weâve found that, never realizing it, for decades weâve been hoarders of our own lives.
Weâre human packrats, weâve discovered, hiding away bits and pieces of the past, and then forgetting where we put them, or even that we ever hid them at all.  Read MoreÂ
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Blog postIâve been thinking: what does a story mean?
Itâs because I just published a new novel, Caliban Risingâitâs a thriller, and I hope it means: âKeep turning those pages!â
You sneak onto a mysterious Caribbean island. Nice beaches, but nasty murders. Maybe you get hurled out of a Black Hawk helicopter, or fed to the islandâs feral Bengal tiger. Also, there are creepy robotsâ¦.
Will you surviv -
Blog postWe once tried vegetable gardening, but a woodchuck ate most of our carrots and green beans and squash. He got so fat he couldnât run, only slowly waddle.
We say âheâ because of his size. Females are smaller, and possibly more into weight watching.
Woodchucks have western cousinsâmarmots and prairie dogsâbut woodchucks are more eccentric, like old-time New England hill farmers.
For one thing, theyâre loners. In
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Wil Deft
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