By Cal Garrison, a.k.a. Mother of the Skye The Sun entered Scorpio on Oct. 23 and this week’s horoscopes are coming out under the light of a Sagittarius Moon. This combination is bound to deliver a double whammy of newness and change. If the last week or two has had us feeling like we’re trudging…

By Cal Garrison a.k.a Mother of the Skye This week’s Horoscopes are coming out under the light of a Virgo Moon. In its Balsamic phase, as it approaches newness, the next few days open for us to let go of all the leftovers from the last month. If there is anything that needs to get…

By Meghan McCarthy McPhaul This time of year, I keep the windows cracked open on even marginally warm nights, savoring the sweet air that sifts through the screens. On that air come the sounds of others relishing the last bit of warmth before frost settles in: namely, crickets and katydids. With trills and chirps, clicks…

By Kevin Theissen According to a recent report, only 34 percent of American’s have a will, which may not be entirely surprising. No one wants to be reminded of their own mortality or spend too much time thinking about what might happen once they’re gone. But a will is an instrument of power. Creating one…

By Marguerite Jill Dye Sitting outside the Gran Hotel Pelayo in Covadonga, Spain, the internet connection was as elusive as  el sol, but soon the sun and blue patches of sky emerged from swirling clouds and mist. We didn’t realize how rare sun could be high up in the Picos de Europa mountains. There my…

By Brady Crain The shoulder is coming along, and next week I will be able to lift weights. This week was marked by lots of walking and lots of road riding, because of the gorgeous weather. One interesting thing that happened to me was that as I was headed down West Hill Road the other…

By Mary Ellen Shaw Having grown up with party lines and phones without a dial, I am truly amazed by the way communication has changed. Dial phones were probably as welcome to my parents’ generation as cell phones are to mine. But what is the history of the telephone? Going back to 1900, there were…

By Brett Yates I was hired in 2008 as a youth culture columnist for the Mountain Times, just a few months after my 20th birthday, and one of the earliest articles I wrote was an impassioned denunciation of emo music, as feverishly and embarrassingly over-the-top as the genre itself. My polemic identified the key ingredients…

By Dom Cioffi A few months ago, one of my coworkers was in my office to discuss an upcoming project. In the middle of our conversation, the internet radio I was tuned into started playing a song that I absolutely love. I abruptly stopped her in mid-sentence and turned up the volume. “You know who…

By Cal Garrison a.k.a. Mother of the Skye This week’s Horoscopes are coming out under the light of a Gemini Moon. The Moon will trine the Sun before the day is out. This will give the first day of the week a harmonious outset, but all things are subject to change. Positioned in Libra, the…

By Cal Garrison, a.k.a. Mother of the Skye This week’s Horoscopes are coming out under the light of a Virgo Sun, and an Aquarius Moon that remained void until around 10:30 a.m. (EST) on Monday morning. If your first day of the week got off to a slow start, don’t worry. Until it enters Pisces, and resumes…

By Cal Garrison, a.k.a. Mother of the Skye This week’s horoscopes are coming out in the aftermath of the fall Euinox, under the light of a Sagittarius Moon. According to the doomsday crowd, the world was due to end on Saturday, Sept. 23, and lo and behold, we’re still here. Recent cataclysmic events had me…

By Susan Shea On a hike this spring, we walked through a clear-cut area with tall grass and brambles. Afterwards, our pant legs were crawling with black-legged ticks (Ixodes scapularis), also known as deer ticks, the kind that carry Lyme disease. Scientists with the Vermont Department of Health recently examined over 2,000 ticks and found…

By Brady Crain I promised last week that I would start doing more interesting things to write about. Then came a few good hard intellectual and emotional kicks to the groin.  I won’t get into it too much, but this sort of thing used to spin me out for weeks, or months, even years. How…

By Marguerite Jill-Dye I sat in the library of a great man whose vision has touched people’s lives all over the world. His name is Father Ernesto Bustio from Guemes, Spain, in the Province of Cantabria. His adjoining office walls and rafters were filled with shelves of slides, videos, photos, and DVDs of the people…