Living In Place
Workout With Wood
It was early Saturday morning. “I’m going to yoga,” I said.“Won’t you help me finish the wood?” Tim said.“I need a good work out,” I said. The Saturday class is the hardest of...
Bonehead
I’m less concerned about the bone loss of osteoporosis than I am with the ossification of my brain.Osteoporosis is another one of those diseases that can be largely prevented...
Vermonters By Choice Open Newfane Village Yoga
A year ago, Vermonters By Choice Jen Frey and Dave Jones opened Newfane Village Yoga. Like a lot of Vermonters By Choice, Jen and Dave came to Vermont as weekenders before moving...
I Love to Weed
I like to garden, but I love to weed.For twenty years, I’ve planted vegetables every spring. At first, I did so joyfully, planting peas during snow squalls and burying potato...
Critical Response Process
I’m hopeful that a new generation of writing workshops will offer the kind of meaningful and useful feedback that’s possible with Critical Response Process, the kind of feedback...
Bald Eagle
I was born during the heyday of agricultural use of DDT, and didn’t see my first bald eagle until 1994, twenty-two years after DDT was banned.It was a Sunday in early March, when...