When a school shooting or other domestic terrorism event has occurred, part of the nauseous standard operating procedure is to comb the attacker’s social media history for clues as to what caused him to perform the horrific deed: was he always violent, insane, antisocial, or was there, at some point, a normal human being bearing…

Leave both weapons and baggage at the door By Cal Garrison, a.k.a. Mother of the Skye This week’s Horoscopes are coming out under the light of an Aquarius Moon. At around suppertime on the East Coast the Moon will turn Void-of-Course, until close to midnight when it will change signs, roll into Pisces, and start…

By Tim Traver As a kid fidgeting at my grandmother’s Thanksgiving table, I often wondered, what’s the point of cranberries? She had a live-in Irish cook who insisted on serving whole cranberries suspended in a kind of gelatinous, inverted bog. If I ventured to eat a berry I experienced the power of my gag reflex.…

By Marguerite Jill Dye We were grateful that the snow arrived in time for a beautiful Thanksgiving and to provide ideal conditions for Killington’s first World Cup where excitement and energy stirred up The Beast. Daydreaming about the great event and sparkling white world, my mind wandered to Killington’s  Canada lynx kitten. How wonderful and…

The first was realizing I’d aged out of joining the military.  It was something I’d always kept as an option. It had its attractions.  I could simply join the Navy and go see the world, except a day came when it was no longer possible.  I was too old. That was a long time ago…

In the weeks and months following an election, it’s impossible—at least for me—to look at a map of our country without mentally filling in the appropriate color for each state: red or blue. A plurality of Americans voted Democrat, but most of the land belonged, as usual, to the Republicans, owing to the vast swath…

By Cal Garrison, a.k.a. Mother of the Skye This week’s Horoscopes are coming out under the light of a Void-of-Course, Scorpio Moon, a moon that will perk up and get the ball rolling again when it moves into Sagittarius at around 3:30 p.m., EST. The shift from Scorpio to Sagittarius is almost palpable; Scorpio is…

By Cal Garrison, a.k.a. Mother of the Skye This week’s Horoscopes are coming out just as the Sun slips into Sagittarius, under the light of a Virgo Moon. With the Thanksgiving holiday right around the corner it’s time to count our blessings and open our hearts as we approach the entrance to the Advent season.…

The people of Killington and all of Vermont welcome you to the Audi International Ski Federation Alpine Ski World Cup. We are happy and honored you have chosen Killington for the Giant Slalom and Slalom and are especially excited to stand, for the very first time, among the great hosts of the World Cup skiing…

By Rev. Lee Alison Crawford, Vicar For the past week, down here on the farm, we have been running around like squirrels putting up acorns for the winter. All the projects left unfinished from the summer and fall need to be completed now as we face the first snowfall for the season. (By the time…

By Declan McCabe Recently, my daughter participated in Odyssey of the Mind, a creative problem-solving competition devoted to ingenuity and team work. As an entomologist, I was thrilled to learn that the program calls its highest award the “Ranatra fusca.” Not only was the award named for an insect, but an aquatic insect, and a…

It has been a quiet week in Killington. I haven’t been doing much in the way of activity other than skiing every day and rock climbing at the Rutland Gym. This is what I normally refer to as my “asthsma season” or my “fat season.” For whatever reason, I tend to eat a lot of…

By Mary Ellen Shaw When I was a young girl I remember my mother had a thick green hardcover cookbook.  It was her “go to” cookbook and the pages looked it. Various recipes had little remnants of ingredients that had been dropped on the pages over the years. In browsing online for its name, it…

Last week, after vaguely apologizing for having stated so many times that there was no chance Donald Trump would win the presidency, I pledged to take a break from politics. But—hey, sorry, man—I still can’t get the election out of my head. Lately I’ve been considering the divisions that have formed among Clinton’s supporters in…

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