Dan York

When This Is All Over...

... we will be a nation with a massive divide, no matter who wins.

A nation with a huge difference between the rural and the urban... between those who have done well in the new economy... and those who have been left behind.

No matter who wins, our next task as a nation will be to figure out how to rebuild the connections between us.

Can we perhaps start by being more civil to each other? To respecting our differences?

Can each of us try to treat others more kindly?

I'd like to think so... but I'm not so sure.

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Image: a bumper sticker I saw on a car last month.

Drone video of Monadnock Region shows why we love to live here

Do you want to understand why we love living in Keene, New Hampshire, and the surrounding "Monadnock Region"? This video taken from a drone shows the beauty of our area (and it also really makes me want to buy a drone with a video camera!)

Kudos to the folks at the Monadnock Shopper News for creating this beautiful video.

P.S. Our area is called the "Monadnock Region" because our tallest mountain is named Mount Monadnock.

A Crazy Day of Curling (Across Generations)

Today was a CRAZY day of curling! It began at 9:00am when our 7-year-old took to the ice at Petersham Curling Club (PCC) for her first day as a member of the "Little Rocks" youth program (ages 7-12). It ended with me going on the ice back at PCC at 8:15pm to play in the Mixed League (men and women) until after 10:00pm.

In between those times, our 14-year-old daughter was up in the Toronto, Canada, area playing with her team against 15 other highly competitive Canadian and US teams. Her team had two games - 11:00am and 5:00pm - and wound up winning both of them... but with extremely tense and nail-biting endings!

I think I gained a good bit of white hair today... and that was just from watching the website and getting updates sent by messages from one of the parents up there in Canada!

It was a great day! From the boundless energy and enthusiasm of our 7yo, to our daughter's team winning their two games... to my team squeaking out a narrow win (it came down to the final stone!).

A crazy day... but a good one!