I like to experience other places through the concept of home by living in place somewhere else when I travel. I’m just back from ten days in San Francisco, where I enjoyed a D-I-Y Writing Residency punctuated by visits with family and friends. I holed up in my brother’s apartment for most of a week, […]
Einstein’s Relativity and Middle Age
One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity, replacing the Newtonian theory that gravity was a force inside the earth with the idea that gravity is imprinted in the geometry of the universe. Try as I might to understand the physics of the cosmos according Einstein, I’ve settled, instead, for an […]
Vermonter By Choice: Vincent Panella
Vermont has long been a refuge for writers like my neighbor Vincent Panella, a Vermonter By Choice, who says that Vermont allows him the quiet and solitude he needs to write. Even though he lives in Vermont, he often writes about Queens, where he was born to parents, who were first-generation immigrants from Italy. Panella has […]
Fall Migration
Every fall, even people who aren’t birders make the annual pilgrimage to the top of Putney Mountain, where they watch the charismatic avifauna migrate south along the West and Connecticut River flyways. Up there, a group of regulars keep count of the red tails, kestrels, sharpies, and bald eagles that wing south. They also […]
VERMONTER BY CHOICE: Vicky Senni
Vicky Senni’s life reads like a fairy tale: One day while working as a quality engineer for a multinational corporation, she fell asleep at her microscope, so she switched to teaching children about nature and couldn’t sleep at all. After substitute teaching in Cleveland during the school year and leading teens on service learning trips to […]
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