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’Tis the season to be responsible
BRATTLEBORO-It's here: the season of good cheer.
With days and nights filled with holiday-themed office parties, social gatherings, gift exchanges, and celebrations, it's the time of year when friends come to call and glasses of wassail are raised to toast the old and the new.
Nineteen miles from Brattleboro
A young man finds himself in need of the kindness of strangers as travels to Townshend to visit his brother’s family for Christmas
BRATTLEBORO-I was full of Christmas cheer as I took a trolley from Cambridge to Boston to wait for the train to Brattleboro. It was snowing heavily. I was excited about spending a Vermont Christmas with my brother Paddy, his wife Betty, and their little daughter Leish, but I was...
The birds didn’t owe us anything
A journey to stress-free joy in the holiday season
GRAFTON-It must be an epidemic. Google "coping with holiday stress," and you'll find enough advice from psychologists, life coaches, health clinics, etiquette mavens, and other "experts" to keep you in reading material for all the holidays of your life. My cursory research has revealed that the experts have boarded...