Here in Vermont we began the day with high winds and snow—whiteout blizzard conditions. It felt a lot like the news of the day. Until the beginning of the year…
When we were growing up, my brother and I shared a bedroom, and on nights when we couldn’t leave the excitement of the day behind—and most of our days then…
This has been a week seemingly of change unlike anything we’ve seen, perhaps ever. And it is important to remember that even in the horror of these many unknown changes,…
This race for the presidency has reached a point where I need to be very clear with friends and family and any who reads this. What happened on Sunday night…
Two women, in particular, shaped my life as I grew up. My mother and a good family friend, Norma, helped me see what was important both in life and in…
Here in Vermont the inevitable annual changes in our natural world are well underway. The sun, of course, drives them all with less solar energy reaching us due to shorter…
It can take only moments these days to find the peace of a good night’s sleep vaporized as the morning headlines scream at me from my screen. I’m not one…
The view from here last night of the partial lunar eclipse was beautiful. My photographs of same, not so beautiful! The web of life is always much better, of course,…
I’ve not watched TV news for years but even my daily reading of several newspapers make it clear the world continues to overflow with self-destructive turmoil, leaving many with lives…
It is HOT this week in much of the world, even across much of the United States and, yes, even in the Green Mountains where winter cross-country skiing is just…
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