Jarvis Coffin

@Jarvis3
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#Writer. #Fiction and #essays on #rurallife and #nature in southern #NewHampshire. Former #chef and #innkeeper and, for thirty years, a #media executive. Husband, father, grandfather, son, brother.
Blogwww.jarviscoffin.com
Amazon Author Pagehttps://www.amazon.com/author/jarviscoffin
Jarvis Coffin6d ago
Bird watching this morning with my brother. Beautiful day, strolling across fields, breathing in the view. And now ... creepy crawlies of ticks. Ugh.
#nature #birdwatching #birds
Jarvis CoffinMay 10
Delighted to announce my first collection essays, about life in southern New Hampshire, through Bauhan Publishing. Thank you for reading. It’s the best thing we can to do for ourselves these days. https://www.amazon.com/author/jarviscoffin #writing #essays #newhampshire
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Jarvis CoffinMay 5
https://www.jarviscoffin.com/othermusings/burn-drag-split-stack/
#writing #essays #firewood #rural #newhampshire #monadnock
Burn, Drag, Split, Stack

A pile of wood—branches and brush, or full-grown timber—imposes its presence. It can stop a truck.

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Jarvis CoffinMay 4
https://www.jarviscoffin.com/going-out-with-the-ranger/
#writing #essays #fordranger #newhampshire #monadnock
Going Out with the Ranger

My goal is to go out with the Ranger. Not in it, mind you—which would serve no one—but out together as we shift down, tow less, and go slower uphill.

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Jarvis CoffinApr 22
Unfollowing Food & Drink after an avalanche of boosts. What the heck!
Jarvis CoffinApr 21
https://www.jarviscoffin.com/othermusings/grits-just-come/
#writing #email #internet #essays
Grits Just Come

"Even if you don’t order them, grits just come. Same with email. Email just comes."

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Jarvis CoffinApr 6
https://www.jarviscoffin.com/caught-flat-footed/
#writing #nature #essays #newhampshire
Caught Flat-footed

The fox was a gift of creation. I hollered, “No! No! No!”

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Jarvis CoffinMar 24
https://www.jarviscoffin.com/othermusings/how-was-your-winter/
#writing #new hampshire #essays
How Was Your Winter?

Huckleberry and I hiked out to the secluded Shattuck Pond last week, which is about a mile from our back door, up the hill and through the woods. It has been closed to us since heavy snow accumulated, although I can’t remember how long that’s been. By now,

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Jarvis CoffinMar 9
#writing #essays #nature
https://www.jarviscoffin.com/to-explain/
To Explain

The very branches where fathers courted mothers, and later supervised the first flight of youngsters, will be gone.

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Jarvis CoffinFeb 25

#writing #newhampshire #essay #rural #winter

https://www.jarviscoffin.com/othermusings/too-bad-you-missed-it/

Too Bad You missed It

And, thus, in those few minutes, I was possibly as comfortable, and at rest, as I had been in fifty years.

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