Recent visitors to my upper Greenfield Meadows home got my wheels spinning back to my wayward early-college days, when liberty, freedom, and autonomy drenched each refreshing breath of rebellious Amherst air during the 1971-72 school year. The visitors were my widowed sister-in-law Jan, four years my senior, from Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, and her brother-in-law Bud, […]

An email that arrived in my inbox last week pulled me back to Gill before it was so named, and nudged me into a stream-of-consciousness realm. I guess I was ripe for it, given the elusive subjects I’ve been exploring in recent weeks and months. The email query came from transplanted Vermonter Andrea Varney, who […]

With the new year upon us, our deer can breathe a sigh of relief after surviving the hunting season, my previously bloated woodshed is rapidly hollowing out, and right here within reach of my favorite recliner stands a slim stack of three recently purchased books to read. The books represent the last of the itemized […]