I returned Saturday from two fabulous weeks in Botswana. Wow! I left Vermont hoping we would have some snow on my return and the weather gods saw fit to deliver…
The year is moving on, the sun shining more often and rising higher each day. We’ve just passed the traditional point in the year when old Vermonters would look at…
The opening of my new show at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library earlier this week was a delight. The show will be up through the end of February for those who are…
People often ask “how can you live with Vermont winters?” My replies range from serious (“you have to learn to play outside”) to less so (“I can always put more…
The Winter Solstice has long been a special time for those of us living far north of the equator. While for some it is—understandably—a hard, cold, dark time of year,…
The father of a dear, old childhood friend never liked to go back by the way he’d come. While I’ve fallen in love with the “loop walks” described in the…
As we approach the Winter Solstice, I value the sun more than ever, especially after the past few cloudy weeks here in Vermont. When I can, I walk on the…
A great deal has been written about the decline of farms in Vermont. Few farmers, if any, are getting rich and many are barely getting by. The story in much…
I was reminded this morning on Writer’s Almanac that 41 years ago today astronauts of the Apollo 17 mission made their iconic photographs of our planet. This is likely the…
…and being thankful for all he did to make the world a better place for all of us, and reminded by his death how much more remains to be done. Thank…
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