Living In Place

My kids introduced me to the smooth brew of coffee made in an AeroPress, so I bought one. It’s a simple device consisting of three inscrutable pieces of plastic that defy both...

Much to my own disbelief, I’m planning to complete Vermont's Long Trail for the second time in two years. This sounds more outlandish than it actually is. Unlike last year’s...

What to do when words fail to come? It happens sometimes. Yesterday morning, in fact. I had a post due on Living In Place, and I didn’t have anything to say. Worse, my brain was...

On this Summer Solstice, I've dug into my archives for Hum Time, an essay that appeared in July/August issue of Vermont Magazine in 1992, when the world was young and green.  HUM...

Vermonters By Choice is an occasional column about people who, like Ethan Allen, came to Vermont from away. After living in Vermont for the past thirty years, Anne Black says, “I...

This isn’t the post I’d planned for today, and you could blame the weather. It stopped raining long enough over the weekend that I weeded the garden. And then it rained again,...