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Last Communion of an Island Dog
Last Communion of an Island Dog I died today or yesterday of fleas and famine – sooner both, but consciousness and hunger haunt my rest. I fought life hard, bore… Read More
Poems
Fawn in Headlights
Fawn in Headlights You will never again be this alone or alive, Near your mother lying dead in the breakdown lane, And you in the travel lane, trying to stand… Read More
Health Care
A national avalanche of dying principles….
In the run-up to President Trump’s budget submission, some 28 Freedom Caucus members and other conservative hardliners vociferously opposed it, on camera, for their participants. Then, under personal pressure from… Read More
Media & Press
Time to stand up for democratic principles….
Kyle Stevens/Shutterstock New York City, the largest city in the United States, with a population of 8.4M people or 2.5% of the country, just chose a young progressive democrat, Zohran… Read More
Education
Change is in the ivy....
In this season of caps and gowns, change is afoot. The architecture of ivy-decked privilege is ceding ground to a still-evolving but more accessible and affordable vision of higher… Read More
Policy & Politics
Kicking cans...
Licensed iStock Vermont struggles with a lack of leadership or, at best, a confusion about what leadership is. The fundamentals of leadership are straightforward: A leader listens, elicits diverse opinions… Read More
Media Coverage
Antisemitism – Anti-Netanyahu: A false equivalency
Photo courtesy BBC I usually write about Vermont, but even here we’re complicit in the horror being perpetrated on Gaza unless we speak out. In several conversations recently, I’ve expressed… Read More
Health Care
Questions for our “nonprofit” healthcare system governing boards.
As healthcare costs in Vermont gobble up more and more expendable resources needed for housing, education, property tax abatement etc. it’s time to ask hard questions and hold providers… Read More
Policy & Politics
Government isn’t the problem; it’s the solution… if we support and use it responsibly.
There’s been a lot of blither written on both ends of the political spectrum about how government is not the answer to our accelerating challenges.… Read More
Social Culture
Geezer and Golden Gals in Hinesburg
The ‘Triple G’ group, more sedately called by the Carpenter-Carse Library staff “Senior Meet-up,” gets together every Monday from 1 PM to 2:30 PM in the community room of the… Read More
Social Culture
What has happened to Vermont?
What are the cohesive elements in Vermont’s 247 towns and cities? What sustains their human connection, commerce, and community? Though born in New York City, I grew up in Morrisville… Read More
Book Reviews
Happy Poetry Month: Two Superb new Vermont Collections
I often ask myself if depression is circumstantial or anatomical. Although it runs deep in my family, current events certainly play a role, and… Read More
