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Short Story Collection: “Fat People”
Fat People: fiction about people who live to eat Fat People is an entirely unique fictional look at the emotions and experiences of those who live to eat: the estrangement,… Read More
The Blame Game
There’s a lot to be saddened about in the BP disaster. The damage to the gulf and shoreline may take a generation to recover, the economic loss to the region,… Read More
Stasis or Change?
Much of what I hear these days is, “I’m gonna vote for balance. If the legislature’s gonna be Democratic, I’ll vote for a Republican governor to keep them in check.”… Read More
Talk to me…..
When I was a cub scout in Morrisville in 1953, one of my merit badge projects was to learn Morse code. Another was talking into orange juice cans connected by… Read More
Ah, Mother
It’s time to think about Mother again. And then will come Father’s Day. For many of us, it’s bittersweet to revisit our mothers and fathers, either in person or in… Read More
Our Schools, Ourselves
We are in a six-passenger compartment on the eight-hour train ride from Marrakesh to Fez. It is like a small ensemble theater company that will change characters as we move… Read More
The Courage of the Nuns
Well, the bishops have their vestments in a twist again, as if they hadn’t created enough problems for themselves, swearing the victims of their colleagues’ sexual predations to secrecy. In… Read More
A New Town Center for Vermont’s Small Towns
At least for the time being, we must all get smaller. By “smaller,” I mean our government, town, school, non-profit, business, and household budgets. Though we may feel like victims… Read More
Another Chance to Lead: Humane Slaughter
Bad incidents can teach us good things… if we’re willing to learn from them. We may believe that the horrific video of animal abuse shot undercover at the Bushway facility… Read More
The Future of Vermont’s Working Landscape is Up to Us
I often write about how we, as a civilized society, need to keep striving towards equilibrium. As in many times in our history, we live in a highly polarized world… Read More
“The Centre cannot hold…” Yeats
In these opening days of the new decade, I am haunted by Yeats’ ominous stanza in his poem The Second Coming: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy… Read More