Vermont Almanac: Stories From & For the Land, Volume IV, contains another wonderful collection of stories, information, artwork, recipes, odd corners of Vermont history, and a chronicle of last year’s weather. With fifty-nine contributing writers, the book sings in different voices, includes poems, essays, information about Vermont wild’s flora and fauna, and all the […]
I Hope You Are Writing
I hope this post finds you as well as can be under the present circumstances of pandemic, political and social unrest, and economic challenges. And despite all this, I hope you are writing. Vermont Almanac I have been so engrossed in learning to hunt whitetail deer and drafting the story, Learning to Hunt, that I’ve […]
Canada
When anyone on the Long Trail asked me where I was heading last summer, I always said, “Canada.” One man replied, “Before the election?” This was in late August. I’d been on the trail for two weeks, and I’d forgotten about the election. At Sterling Lake, we spoke with some Canadians out for a day-hike who […]
How To Meet a Big Goal
Following a “footpath in the wilderness” from Massachusetts to Canada has helped me learn how to meet a Big Goal. I’ve just returned from Hiking the Long Trail – the 275 mile recreational footpath that follows the spine of the Green Mountains the length of Vermont. The trip was an unqualified success and, blisters […]
Place, Patience & Persistence: One Writer’s Life
I’m writing this post on May 5, 2014, exactly thirty years since moving to Vermont for the summer. I’m still here, and I’m still writing. When I bought a car and rented a cabin in the late spring of 1984, I’d planned to write both a novel and my dissertation between May and September. I […]