The next few weeks of my life are going to be boring. I am ready for boring. I am doing a bunch of training for a new job (outside sales for residential solar juggernaut SolarCity), and just marking time running […]
Category: Column
Generation Y
Vermont in Cinema: “What Lies Beneath”
The Oscar winner Robert Zemeckis put forth “What Lies Beneath” in the midst of Hollywood’s end-of-millennium resurgence of interest in ghost stories. This period began in 1999 with “The Sixth Sense,” “Stir of Echoes,” “The Haunting,” and “Sleepy Hollow,” and […]
The Movie Diary
Steady as she goes
By Dom Cioffi Several months ago, after finding my son and his two friends indoors playing video games, I demanded that they exit the house. It was a beautiful summer day and they were wasting it staring into a television […]
The Movie Diary
Into the great wide open
By Dom Cioffi I sidled up to the bar and ordered the cheapest draft beer available. After all, I was a college student on a very strict budget. The $15 I had in my pocket had to last me all […]
Altitude Sickness
Speed training begins
By Brady Crain A frosty view from Killington Peak at sunrise on Oct. 3, as witnessed by the columnist on xhis new training regimen. Nothing exciting happened this week, and it was everything that I hoped that it would be. […]
The Outside Story
Zebra mussels: voracious filter feeders
By Declan McCabe Invasive species have earned their bad reputations. English sparrows compete with native birds from Newfoundland to South America. Australian brown tree snakes are well on their way to exterminating every last bird from the forests of Guam. […]
Generation Y
Vermont in cinema: “Man with a Plan”
Movies are often based on true stories. When a true story is based on a fictional movie, it’s a somewhat more special circumstance. “Man with a Plan,” a 1996 independent mockumentary, is a special movie. Directed by John O’Brien, a […]
The Movie Diary
Carry on my wayward son
By Dom Cioffi On Feb. 11, 2013, in speech before the most important cardinals in the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI stunned the world by becoming the first pontiff to resign the papal leadership position in nearly 600 years. There […]
The Outside Story
The Outside Story: Black swallowtails have many disguises
By Meghan McCarthy McPhaul It was the dotted, orangey-yellow and black stripes that stood out, drawing my son’s gaze to the edge of the sandbox. A small caterpillar clung to the goutweed, munching away on the green leaves. At […]
Looking Back
Remembering the fun of fall
Recently a friend forwarded to me a Facebook picture of my friend Betty Clark and me in a huge pile of leaves. The picture had been taken in front of my house and it appeared in the Rutland Herald in […]