Monthly Archives: September 2013

Seeing – and hearing – that voice behind bars

The other day I was thumbing casually through a brand new collection of poems, observations, and very brief essays by incarcerated Vermont women, “Hear Me, See Me,” when I found myself sitting upright, unexpectedly moved. I had just read a … Continue reading

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My best work? Sometimes it’s along for the ride.

The biking season here in Vermont is winding down – at least for me it is. I’m not a rider who climbs on a bike in the snow or pedals intrepidly when the temperature is flirting with freezing. The latest … Continue reading

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A new leaf? Nope. An old one: Why we love fall.

It’s mid-September, that time of the year when the leaves begin their kaleidoscopic transformation in Arizona and tourists from around the world descend upon the state to savor the breathtaking foliage. This fairy tale was brought to you by “Arizona … Continue reading

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“Deluge” a riveting story of a shrew named Irene

If you live in the Northeast – especially Vermont and coastal New Jersey – you still remember vividly where you were the last weekend in August 2011, when a seriously dislikable shrew named Irene roared ashore. A hurricane when she … Continue reading

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The boulder’s big, but our children can move it.

A child brings two heavy buckets of water into the home of a strange old woman and discovers there a wall of cages with dogs trapped inside – and a small carpet on the floor that has been woven from … Continue reading

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