The only thing I don't believe, Susan Odegard, is that you are not an accomplished person. Wow - you have found beauty in yourself and the world and have articulated it so well.
Thanks for this gift of an article.
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
WEST TOWNSHEND-After five years of fundraising and planning, the restoration of the historic Follett Stone Arch Bridge here has started. The 110-year-old bridge is one of six dry stone masonry arch bridges in Townshend - all on the National Register of Historic Places and built between 1894 and 1910 by Civil War veteran James Otis Follett. Follett served in Company D of the 16th Vermont Infantry Regiment volunteers and fought in the Battle of Gettysburg. After the war, he became...
SAXTONS RIVER-Music, community, and dessert come together for a good cause on Saturday, May 10, at 7 p.m., with "Just Desserts," a benefit concert featuring the folk quartet 2x2, held in the Assembly Hall at 24 Main Street Community Building. This event will support 24 Main Street Community Building, a local nonprofit center. Attendees will hear a performance by 2x2-Valerie Kosednar, Mark Grieco, and Lee and Betsy Rybeck Lynd - a vocal and instrumental quartet known for their harmonies and...
Newly retired from 21 years with the English department and theater program at Leland & Gray Union High School, I am baffled by the school's administrative proposal to eliminate the social worker from in-house staff. Such a move seems myopic and ill-advised in the face of the 21st century's technology blitz, the impact of which has been steadily intensifying for years. I have a smart phone, and I try to be a smart user, but I curse what the device...
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