Several months ago, I told you about controversy over school funding here in Vermont. A state law, Act 60, decreed that every student deserves an equal education and began dividing school taxes on a statewide, rather than townwide, basis. In the geography of Vermont, a few hilltops of faux-urban prosperity look down on broad valleys […]

Happy Thanksgiving. Welcome to the holiday season, which officially began last night with Thanksgiving eve festivities. Thanksgiving is a holiday for children, a day to think about what we put in our mouths and a day when many of us begin to think about that other holiday, which is now less than a month away.

The vegetables stopped coming last week. This year Adrienne and I bought a farm subscription and for a scandalously low price we received a half-bushel of organic vegetables, starting in late spring, running through summer and into autumn. It’s a good deal for us, but hard work for the farmers. The words “organic farm” hold […]

It’s late autumn in the north country. The leaves are off the trees and the tourists they attract have gone home. The woods are quiet; songbirds have headed south, geese and ducks are passing through as they do the same. Nights are cold, mornings are frosty and afternoons gloriously warm with the heat inversions of […]