Voices | David Mehegan

The stuff of life

Pare it down, pass it on, before it becomes someone else’s task

By David Mehegan

December 28, 2009

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A senior neighbor died about two years ago. Since then, his house has stood dark and empty. The grass he used to lime each March and manicure all summer was succeeded by 4-foot-tall ragweed, which waved and hissed in the wind all winter, like last year’s corn stalks. The rambler roses his wife used to tend along a side fence ... (Full article: 760 words)