Books & bits from small town Vermont
So Tinmouth is about my favorite town in Vermont. It's tucked up in the hills, off the highway. Most visitors roll past it without knowing it's there. And it's one of the towns whose taxes support the library I work at. Thanks Tinmouth! Last Saturday I went to a curling bonspiel (The Verspiel! Woot!) which… Continue reading Desert news in the Green Mountain State
Figuratively can literally rest in peace. Literally means – or meant, some years ago – that what was discussed was literally true. It was a statement of fact, not a word picture. So Kylian Mbappe didn’t literally place the French soccer team on his back en route to the winning the World Cup, which would… Continue reading D__fuse confusion
Cindi Wight is a great ambassador for Rutland Recreation and Parks Department as well as active living in general. But Wight, the superintendent of the department, has been bringing a lot more to the job than even that for years. She's been bringing her family. The Wights -- husband Keith and children Josh, Molly and… Continue reading Rutland’s first family of recreation
This new year, like most years and like many people, I decided I needed to get into better shape. Which is, let's face it, how gyms make money. I saw an article online recently that said as many as 90 percent of people who sign up for health clubs as a result of a New… Continue reading Resolving to run … or plod to fitness
By Randal Smathers Can eating your veggies make you healthier? There's an innovative program in Rutland that aims to show it's a fact. Each Wednesday, 100 bags of locally grown vegetables are handed out by the Health Care Share program to families and residents of senior and assisted living homes whose doctors have prescribed them.… Continue reading Food, from farmers
By Randal Smathers Madison and Griffin Kingsbauer have a different story to tell when it comes time to write their “what I did this summer” essays. The sister and brother – she's 15 and he's 13 – ran a farm stand at their father's medical practice. Every Monday from April 9 to August 22, the… Continue reading Summer @ the Farmacy
There's plenty of embarrassing to go around this election season. Some of it beyond the GOP presidential field. Donald Trump is a historically bad candidate, yes. Barry Goldwater bad, in that he is likely to signify a sea change in how the country is run and by whom. But it was Marco Rubio who made… Continue reading Embarrassment to democracy
I haven't used this blog for a year or two, but I have to present my reading list from my young adult reading class, so I'll be filing (a lot) of posts over the next few weeks, almost all about books. Who knows, if the conversation gets rolling, I might keep doing this. Most of the… Continue reading Back from the dead
So with the Olympic hockey tournament over, a ponder: Would people please quit making excuses for the Russian team? They sucked. They suck. They will suck. They have a handful of players with great skills who are wildly overrated by the US hockey media, who will frankly cheer for anything that's not Canadian because they… Continue reading It was the big ice
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