Comments on: Ode to Autumn

By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:55:20 +0000

Please do tell more about the spooky things you experienced on your ride. Your description of the wind and the changing light gave me a delicious shiver.Halloween is my favorite holiday and fall my favorite season. And who were the odd characters you kept comming across ? Maybe a witch peeking from behind the tree or a lost spirit wandering the trails. With New England being one of the first settled areas in the states I would think it would be very alive with ghostly activity. In fact I thought I remembered hearing either you or Denis imagined your own farmhouse was haunted. Now have a good night and just ignore those footsteps from the empty room over head.LOL.

By: Destini

Destini — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:25:21 +0000

Beautifull poem and right for this time of year!

By: Aine

Aine — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:33:48 +0000

I also live in a coyote area and my pack is always howling along with the coyotes. I’m almost certain one of my mutts has coyote blood in him. I found him in the barn, shivering and skinny, when he was just a little furball, so I haven’t an idea about his background.
And, I love all your poetry posts! It introduces me to such wonderful poems. I’m jealous of the New England fall; I miss the area so much. Sometimes while riding my horse, I’ll close my eyes and imagine my old surroundings. Reading Keats’ poem transports me back to a world where autumn actually exists.

By: tammy

tammy — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:46:30 +0000

My dog goes mad on that telly show some guy raising wolves. i cant remember name of it but now he is trying to teach his woman how to live and raise wolves also.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:57:20 +0000

Next time I want to listen to the coyote group – I will definitely put my Shelties OUTSIDE!
Like Lisa’s dog, my 4 Shelties went tearing from window to window looking for them, doing their own group songs! Wish I could record them and send you a link – too funny!
Thanks for the sounds and the lovely peom, I envy your fall days up north. Down here in Texas everything is just dried up and DEAD! Not very pretty, but I DO look forward to the cooler days…

By: Risa Schiff

Risa Schiff — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:22:55 +0000

I can relate to your experiences with your preemie. My now 26 y.o. twins were preemies due to early labor brought on by their father going into ICU after an accident.
Multiply that experience by AT LEAST a thousand and you’ll begin to understand the pain, challenge and joys of raising my 18 y.o. son who has Autism. A book I could recommend to your family is ” The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Nighttime”. It’s a novel by an Englishman who worked with Autistic kids and really gets to the heart of it all.
I am assuming your husband meant to rant about the over diagnosed condition of “attention deficit disorder” and the Ritalin which is over prescribed to children who are merely stuck in a failing school system with no recess or arts programs. That makes sense.
Sincerely, Risa
Usually a fan (along with my “idiot” son)

By: Ann Leary

Ann Leary — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:51:00 +0000

Hi Caroline, I believe it was but will let him defend himself. I think he’s making a response to the NY Post about how he believes they must not have read the book if that’s what they printed.

By: Candy

Candy — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:41:22 +0000

That was your best blog yet, thanks for sharing. Loved the sound effects, such a perfect fall visual.

By: caroline

caroline — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:48:11 +0000

Please tell me that the excerpt I just read from your husband’s new book regarding autism children being just “lazy”, “stupid” or “both” is taken out of context.

By: Ann Leary

Ann Leary — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:50:02 +0000

They’ll do that. The coyotes even bring the “Call of the Wild” out of our tiny Chihuahua, and she tilts back her head and let’s out the most pathetic, high-pitched girlie howl you’ve ever heard. It’s like the trilling of a song bird, really, and she thinks she’s some kind of wolf when she does it.