5/15/2023 0 Comments Mud season by ellen stimson![]() ![]() It's difficult to tell, in a satisfying way, whether Stimson's family has an unusually high number of stories that read like heartwarming and amusing family comedy films. Stimson, her husband and their three children are still living in rural Vermont, dealing with all of the changes that come as children become teenagers and marriages find their patterns. More proof arrives in her second book, which largely picks up where the first one left off. It makes for a good article, but the truth is different this sort of family exists now just as much in “the good old days.” That truth also makes for a good book, as readers of Stimson’s Mud Season (2013) can attest. In magazine articles about the state of American families and their homes, writers will often wistfully long for a time when things were simpler-even while acknowledging that, technically, there was no such time-when families were tightly knit in the bonds they shared. ![]() The continuing adventures of a family in Vermont. ![]()
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