November 2018

From the Editor

Put Another Log on the Fire

By Margaret Clay

Camaraderie by a fire provides such simple yet profound contentment. Whether you are roasting hot dogs and s’mores around a campfire, chatting with friends around the backyard fire pit (also known as a cave man’s TV), or enjoying an indoor fire lit for a party, fires evoke a certain soothing ambiance in any scenario. They offer a primal pleasure from their warmth, the dancing flames, and the dazzling, ever-changing patterns in the glowing embers. That is, unless Mother Nature objects. Once at a seated dinner party, as we lit the first fire of the season, an angry family of indignant…

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Put Another Log on the Fire

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