Monthly Archives: December 2014

Our most endearing trait? Our ability to hope.

This coming Wednesday night, once again – as I do every year – I will be contemplating the irony and wistfulness in the penultimate sentence in “The Great Gatsby:” “Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . … Continue reading

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They don’t make toys like they used to — thank heavens

The bug wasn’t Gregor Samsor-big. We’re not talking Kafkaesque. But in my memory it was the size of a cat. It was vaguely wasp-like – black and yellow – with both a stinger at the rear and an earwig’s pincers … Continue reading

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Shining the light on the homeless — one candle at a time

This coming Thursday evening around 5:30, you’ll see a small crowd assembled on the exterior steps of Burlington, Vermont’s City Hall, looking out upon Church Street. Sometimes there are 30 people and sometimes there are 50. It might be snowing, … Continue reading

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White House Visitor Center missed an opportunity and swept Genocide under the rug

You know your moral compass is a little off when you censor a story about a gift to a U.S. president from a group of orphans — even though that story makes your grandparents and great-grandparents look like Mother Teresa. … Continue reading

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