Trespassing One day last November, I was hunting on a neighbor’s hundred-acre parcel after a snowfall. Just as the sun grazed the treetops, I found fresh tracks. I didn’t have much daylight, but I was sure this was a buck chasing a doe, so I followed until I was trespassing on land that belonged to […]
Living in Place
How to Lower the Carbon Cost of Travel
According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, transportation accounts for 29 percent of annual greenhouse gas emissions. So even though I followed Leave No Trace practices while backpacking in the Grand Canyon, my recent trip was anything but carbon neutral. Flying I drove to Bradley International Airport, in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. It’s ninety miles […]
Hidden Heroes Features Clowns Without Borders
Just as I was about to send this week’s post about the carbon footprint of travel out into the world, I came across this video featuring the work of Clowns Without Borders. Clowns Without Borders brings “resilience through laughter” to children around the world who have been displaced by war and natural disaster. These are […]
Freedom, Generosity & Gratitude
This Fourth of July, I’m thinking about freedom, generosity, and gratitude. My Paternal Grandparents I’m grateful to my paternal grandfather, who left Russia in 1914 and worked as a shoemaker in America, earning enough money by 1921 to send for my grandmother and their two sons. I’m especially grateful to this grandmother. I wish I […]
Cheryl Strayed & Hospice
Yesterday evening, Cheryl Strayed spoke at the Latchis Theater in celebration of Brattleboro Area Hospice’s Fortieth Anniversary. Strayed is the author of the best-selling memoir, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, the story of her 1995 solo hike of the PCT when she was twenty-seven years old. But like any good […]
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