Monthly Archives: September 2007

Poets have searched for centuries for the words to describe the bond that exists between parents and children, especially as children embark upon adulthood. Perhaps no writer has captured it as well as the 19-year-old St. Lawrence University student and … Continue reading →

Today marks the autumnal equinox, which means that spring has officially arrived … if you live in Rio de Janeiro. Here in Vermont, Land of the Giant Zucchini, it is now officially fall. (Just for the record, at the moment … Continue reading →

The Lincoln General Store has a mighty impressive inventory for a three-room emporium half way up an east-west mountain road that closes to the east in the winter. In all fairness, there are also a lot of things you cannot … Continue reading →

First of all, a clarification: I did not come in dead last in the third stage of the Green Mountain Stage Race, Vermont’s arduous four-day Labor Day Weekend bike race. Why? I wasn’t in the third stage. I wasn’t in … Continue reading →

Is it only me, or have some of you noticed that you never see Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Batman in the same room? I am not saying, of course, that the senator and the Dark Knight are the same … Continue reading →