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 TIME Hail the Summer Solstice! It’s the longest day of the year, the beginning of summer – the shortest season by far, here […]
Living in Place
Vermonter By Choice: Anne Black & The Warrior Connection
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 don’t want to live anywhere else.” It’s a place that she finds both profoundly spiritual and creative – two key elements in her life’s […]
Blame the Weather
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, hard and cold. I fired up the woodstoves both in my studio and the house, and cooked hearty soups while the spring greens […]
Word By Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper
“Language is one of the few common experiences humanity has.” So begins the Preface to Kory Stamper’s wonderful memoir, Word By Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries. Hanging on Stamper’s personal narrative about how she came to be a lexicographer at Merriam-Webster and what that work is like is the entertaining history of the English […]
Outside in the WMNF
OUTSIDE IN THE WMNF I was one of the approximately six hundred and twenty-five thousand visitors forecast to visit New Hampshire over the holiday weekend. I went to climb North and South Hancock, two of New Hampshire’s high peaks. We drove about two and a half hours to reach the parking lot at the […]
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