By Cal Garrison, a.k.a. Mother of the Skye This week’s Horoscopes are coming out under the light of a Cancer Moon, at the peak of the Lammas Crossquarter. This is an incredibly powerful time. Anyone who is paying attention can feel it. The instructions at this time of year are simple and direct: Rejoice, celebrate,…

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By Dom Cioffi When I was a kid, I never had an issue with heights. In fact, heights fascinated me. I think I first became enamored with heights when I started climbing trees. My childhood home had several wonderful trees that offered a multitude of challenges for the daring climber. If no one was around,…

By Tim Traver To be good at catching fish these days you have to be good at letting fish go. Releasing fish unharmed turns out to be a good way to share a limited resource, and depending on what you hook, it also may be required by fishing regulations. Yet releasing fish successfully can be…

By Brett Yates On July 21, from the stage at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, the libertarian billionaire Peter Thiel proclaimed before a crowd of fellow Donald Trump supporters that he is “proud to be gay”—an unprecedented event at a Republican National Convention. Later that night, Trump himself vowed to protect “our LGBTQ community,” a…

By Brady Crain Paul McCartney’s concert at Fenway park last week was a show that once again (for the fourth time ) brought tears to Crain’s eyes creating a memory not soon to be forgotten. I did something this week that I haven’t done since I was 14. I pulled a groin. And not in…

By Cal Garrison This weeks’ Horoscopes are coming under the light of an Aries Moon, on one of the most auspicious days of the year: Welcome to the “Day Out of Time.” For those of you who don’t know what I am referring to, “The Day Out of Time” is based on the 13 Moon…

Cal Garrison (a.k.a Mother of the Skye) writes weekly horoscopes for The Mountain Times. If you would like an emailed notification sent to you weekly, sign up for the newsletter, below. Want to hear more from Mother of the Skye? Check out Mother's Celestial Inspirations for a deeper look into this weeks horoscopes    …

When Tim Duncan announced his retirement from basketball in characteristically low-key fashion on July 11, sportswriters launched into the appropriate rhapsodies about the five-time NBA champion’s mastery in the post, the perfection of his bank shot, his defense, his longevity, his consistency, his modesty, and the winning culture of steady, unflappable efficiency that his selfless,…

By Carolyn Lorié By mid-July, the oregano in my herb garden has grown tall and tatty, and I want nothing more than to cut it back into a tidy mound. But I don’t. Doing so would deprive the flurry of common wood nymph butterflies that swarm the plants every year. The messiness is a small…

For most of us no time passes faster than the summer months. Back when you were a student on school vacation it really zipped by. Summer vacation officially started when we left school, chanting, “No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers’ dirty looks.” The “lazy, hazy days of summer” were about to begin…

By Carl Diethelm Modern entrepreneurs understand that as times change, so do markets for goods and services. Vermont’s Universal Recycling Law will ban food scraps from entering the landfill in 2020 and already has banned yard waste, and there will be great opportunity to earn money by collecting these materials and composting them at a…

Given that I used to pop anti-inflammatory pills like candy when I was a fighter, I have assiduously avoided them since. I have weathered many injuries to my knees, back, neck, bruises, etc. without any sort of assistance, but this has been different…neck pain followed by sacral sprain followed by neck pain. I have once…

By Dom Cioffi Last week in this column, I chronicled a sickness I was experiencing while writing. I explained in the very first sentence, “At this exact moment, as I’m typing these words into my laptop, I am ridiculously sick. This isn’t a run-of-the-mill sickness either; this is the laid-up-in-bed, stomach-rebelling, joint-aching, head-throbbing kind of…

This week’s horoscopes are coming out under the light of a Capricorn Moon with aspects that make me wonder if I have any business analyzing the situation. I say this because there is so much going on, it could be affecting any one of us in a thousand different ways. It isn’t just the lunar…