Christmas came and went in a fast flurry of sparkle and shine. The kids were all home and once again we had twenty-eight paws in the house. There were our three dogs, Pippi, Oscar…
This year to celebrate turning fifty I decided to turn a bunch of my Vermont stories into a book … the book I always meant to write before I turned fifty. Big fun, lots of…
This weekend was one of the really good ones. We have started a little literary salon up here in the north country. I invite writers I like and promise them a reading at one of…
It has been some hot. Vermont doesn’t usually get much real heat. We call ourselves the naturally air conditioned state. No one has central air although the grocery stores are all selling window units right…
Two of the happiest words in our language have to be school’s out. (Okay so maybe the contraction makes those technically three but you get the drift) When placed together in a sentence they invariably…
One of my favorite things is waking up on a Saturday morning to a pile of sneakers beside the radiator in the kitchen. I have usually gone to sleep way before these basketball playing, skateboarding,…
This time of year you just want to be outside. Vermont is a paradise of greens. These fresh lacy greens are climbing up the sides of the mountains and the lilacs are budding. Add all…
