Whatever happened to the stock market? That harbinger of economic vitality, of unemployment, inflation, consumer confidence, interest rates, gross domestic product, productivity, profit, or di… Read more

The voice we heard on May 1, 1992, still resonates through the years and the question asked is as relevant today as it was then. “Can we all get along?” The question was posed by Rodney King, … Read more

In May and early June, when my grandfather said, “Come, Billy, let’s go cut some grass,” he wasn’t thinking about the lawnmower (in those days a wooden shafted reel type cutter made mostly of … Read more

In early summer at our place, we host many Eastern Chipmunks, indoors (garage, woodshed, cellar) and out (low branches, flower gardens, stone walls, compost, and forest edges). And every morni… Read more

Even after living twenty years in northern Vermont, there seems to be something inherently unjust about a June morning temperature of 42 degrees. Read more

Among summer’s features lies a special place for the magical appearance of dew each morning. The tiny beads of jewel-like water droplets cling to every delicate surface, briefly producing a my… Read more

“In the Palace of Felicity, in Constantinople, in the land of the Turks, early in the Christian year 1591, viziers to Murad the Great, third of that name, Sultan of the Ottomans, Custodian of … Read more

I hope all of you are doing as well as can be expected during these hard times. I have started to have a couple of people over for simple meals out on my porch. You can have a nice small party… Read more