Poetry is Power: Horses, a haiku

When the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board, the Vermont Housing Finance Agency, and the Vermont Dept. of Economic Development’s Community Recovery and Revitalization Program pool their resources and commit to spending $536,000 per apartment to build a 25-unit mixed-income development, the last thing they want to experience is an obstacle. From my perspective, the Wilco…

It had been years since we were all together. A decade and a half since we had all been scattered to the wind, each of us going our own direction, traveling wherever the wind may take us. To Colorado, to DC, to Toronto, to California, to Okemo. They had all been rookies together, ski patrol…

My wife and I rented our first apartment from an elderly couple right after we graduated from college. The space consisted of three rooms and a bathroom squeezed into a renovated attic above the main house. It was a relatively cozy spot; however, the ceilings were sloped, which meant I would always knock my head…

As the frost line retreats northward in the early spring, its withdrawal is often closely followed – and occasionally preceded – by the arrival of our most common flycatcher: the eastern phoebe. Depending on where you live, you may already have one nesting above your front door. Have you ever wondered why these small, onomatopoeic…