I'm looking forward to a day when dentistry offers a system of care rather than sporadic charity care for the many Vermonters who fall through the cracks.
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...
In our culture, it is common for people to avoid talking about death - our own or that of someone we love. Sometimes people need help starting those conversations. Kasey March is a death doula - a person who helps guide and console a dying person, and their family and friends, during the end-of-life period. It is challenging, demanding, and unusual work, but it is nothing new. Doula is a Greek word that goes back centuries. It historically means “a...
In September 1996, Becky Graber hosted a Wednesday night rehearsal at KidsPLAYce, the play center where her husband Tim Ellis was the director. She imagined she would gather a small group of women and girls to sing together through the fall, but people kept coming, and by November, they outgrew the venue. More than 60 singers met each week in the music room at Oak Grove School, and the group held its first concert in an ice storm in December...
Black lives matter. These three words continue to evoke anger, hope, or indifference depending on your political persuasion. As with so many issues in these polarized times, people at the ends of the spectrum are likely to be animated regarding their significance. I will state unequivocally that Black lives matter, but I will explain my position with cool and dispassionate reasoning. For people who are not Black/Indigenous/people of color (BIPOC), the question becomes, “Why do Black lives matter, and what...
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