Insights and Tips

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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...
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Fawn in Headlights

Fawn in Headlights You will never again be this alone or alive, Near your mother...
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A National Avalanche of Dying Principles….

UVM Medical Center In the run-up to President Trump’s budget submission, some 28 Freedom Caucus members and...
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Time to stand up for democratic principles….

Kyle Stevens/Shutterstock New York City, the largest city in the United States, with a population...
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Change is in the ivy….

In this season of caps and gowns, change is afoot. The architecture of ivy-decked privilege...
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Kicking cans…

Licensed iStock Vermont struggles with a lack of leadership or, at best, a confusion about...
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Antisemitism – Anti-Netanyahu: A false equivalency

Photo courtesy BBC I usually write about Vermont, but even here we’re complicit in the...
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Geezer and Golden Gals in Hinesburg

The ‘Triple G’ group, more sedately called by the Carpenter-Carse Library staff “Senior Meet-up,” gets...
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Happy poems Month: Two Superb new Vermont Collections

I often ask myself if depression is circumstantial or anatomical. Although it runs deep in...
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Our young people are leading in the arts

Dark times in America… Even as Vermont’s only a small part of the whole, our...