Monthly Archives: August 2008

Tomorrow night, when the last strands of cotton candy have wafted into the sky at the Champlain Valley Fairgrounds and the final coals have grown cold in barbecue pits across Vermont, the summer of 2008 will be all but over. … Continue reading →

Far be it from me to impugn the hygiene of a mouse, but the other day I met one that treated the silverware drawer like a bus station bathroom. The mouse was living in a house on an island, a … Continue reading →

The other day my daughter, 14, saw me hunched over a laptop, cringing at the customer reviews of my novels on Amazon.com and bn.com. “Why do you insist on tormenting yourself?” she asked. “It just can’t be good for you.” … Continue reading →

When I was a little boy, I jumped from a second story window while pretending to be Batman and wound up pretty bruised. Clearly this was not the smartest thing I did as a child. Believe it or not, however, … Continue reading →

If you’re a teenager or young adult, how do you know for sure you’ve hit rock bottom? Is it when you’re frustrated because you can’t TiVo the latest installment of “Dancing with the Stars?” Or is it when you realize … Continue reading →

Just wanted to thank the readers of the Seven Days newspaper for voting me “Vermont’s Best Fiction Writer.” The reality, of course, is that there are a lot of wonderful novelists and short story writers in Vermont, and so I … Continue reading →

Later this month, as the 2008 Democratic convention gets under way in Denver, we’ll be reading and seeing a lot in the news about the Democratic convention 40 years earlier that made headlines in Chicago. That’s right; it has now … Continue reading →