8/26/2018 First appeared in VtDigger.org Six weeks ago, following an instinct known to any Vermonter who has lived here more than a couple of years, our eighteen year old son…

It is winter. The deer are starving again. And I’m reminded why women should rule.  If the snow is deep and the weather cold, they starve all winter, supplementing their…

Rain, wet snow and wind make our internet slow and often take it offline. Years ago,  before Consolidated Communications, before Fairpoint, when Verizon was our land line provider, the repairman…

Issac Newton’s theory of universal gravitation explained the motion of the planets with an invisible force of attraction between bodies having mass.  The orbit of the planet Mercury has a…

I believe that my kids love me, but both of them have told me that I am too stupid to use a smartphone. Sometimes this opinion is expressed with frustration,…

In late 1979 The Gambler, sung by Kenny Rogers, crossed over from country to pop radio and got played repetitively on our school bus route. I was about fourteen and…

1-The Spreadsheets and The Cornices Like the saying about bringing a knife to a gunfight, the Cornices are out-of-step with the times. In small, rural towns across this country, thirty…

In my late twenties I figured out that happiness was responding to my grasp the same way a caught fish shoots through your tightening fingers. I decided to give up…

I wrote this years ago during the 2016 presidential primary, back when the idea of Donald Trump becoming the republican nominee, much less president, seemed absurd. Ha ha, the joke…