Notes from the Porch

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(87 87 87 1)>Silver Winner Inspirational 2025 IBPA Book Award</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(87 87 87 1)>Silver Winner Creative Nonfiction 2024 IPNE Award</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Covid-19 stole so much. But one of the things it couldn't steal was the power of stories.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>?From the author of the international bestseller </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Headmaster's Wife </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and other novels comes a collection of essays written during the Covid-19 pandemic while the author sheltered in place in his tiny Vermont town. While in isolation he observed a small town at its best: neighbors helping neighbors the joys of gardening the pleasure of a small boy riding his bike and walks in the park with his dog Hugo. Childhood memories and stories of family life are intertwined and what the reader gains is a sense of community family and belonging. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>??I sat on my porch and thought about how small my world had become writes Greene. His world and these stories may be small but they show us how the human capacity for love is grand and how that love is greater than the ills that befall us. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Notes from the Porch</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Greene's capacity for true storytelling is at its finest and it's a great gift to us all.</span></p>