I didn’t know I was raising an artist when my youngest was a child. Her show, The Weight, opens at the Southern Vermont Arts Center with a reception this Friday, July 22, 2022 from 5-7 and will be on view until September 11, 2022. On display will be Girl’sDress, which Ruth describes is an “effort […]
Living in Place
Wendy Harrison for State Senate
With 10 of Vermont’s 30 state senators stepping down—including both senators from Windham County— we need someone with experience in government to represent us in Montpelier. That would be Wendy Harrison. Wendy has experience. Since moving to Vermont full time in 2015, Wendy’s had firsthand experience as a municipal manager and/or administrator in the small […]
On the Wings of a Hummingbird
I just read On the Wings of a Hummingbird by my neighbor Susan Mills. This newly published novel tells the story of Petra, a fifteen-year old Guatemalan, raised with great spiritual strength that is tested by poverty and gang violence so great that she risks abduction, rape and murder just walking to school. After her […]
Beating the High Cost of Gas
Riding the Train When I boarded the northbound train in Brattleboro on Friday, gas was approaching $5/gallon, and my ticket cost less than making the 300-mile round-trip in my Prius. When I returned home on Sunday, gas had hit the five-dollar mark. If I calculated the cost of purchasing, registering, insuring and maintaining the car, […]
Ephemerals & Memory
Ephemerals On May Day, Tim and I searched for ephemerals along the banks of the Rock River. An ephemeral is a plant that grows and dies within a few days. I’d seen the mottled leaves of trout lilies spearing through the leaf litter days earlier. On this warm Sunday we found trout lilies blooming […]
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