Prudence Baird
One family unplugs
Filmmaker Suzanne Crocker makes a confession in the first scene of her exquisitely filmed documentary All the Time in the World.
“I always envisioned myself as being one of those moms who would have fresh-baked cookies and a glass of milk ready for their kids when they walked in the door after,” she says.
Sex, lies, and disability
Two friends take their developmentally disabled friend on a road trip to find what he’s missing: a woman
Sex and the developmentally disabled is not a topic for polite company, bringing up (as it does) the nasty bits behind the curtain. For parents, especially, this topic chills the soul. Who wants to think about their adult child's aching need for physical love - an urge, a natural...
Area is an international arts mecca
RE: “From Egypt, with love” [The Arts, Sept. 18]: This concert is yet another reminder of the rich artistic diversity we enjoy here in Brattleboro. As we go about our day-to-day lives, we might not notice that our community has grown - and continues to grow - into an...
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The hourglass
Two figures move as one across the steaming asphalt of a medical building parking lot under a hot January sun. This is the kind of day that brings hordes of winter refugees west to follow the televised New Year's Day Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif. One of the figures is a frail old woman collapsed in a transporter wheelchair - a conveyance with four small wheels, made for transferring from place to place those whose self-propelling days are history. The...