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The Pond
July 24, 2024
I look out onto the pond, at the ducks happily swimming, at the frogs hopping from rock to rock and at the people kayaking. I hear the crickets and birds, as the sun just barely peeks through the mountains. The sky is a beautiful display of red, orange, pink and yellow. I wish I could…
Show up for yourself
July 24, 2024
As the spotlight of the Full Moon begins to slowly wane, the intensity of the Sun gains momentum as it shifts into its favorite sign, Leo. Now that things look so vastly different than they did before, it may be easier to come as you are, so to speak. The time to be silent, the…
The 2nd annual Vermont Film Festival returns to Woodstock this Thursday through Sunday
July 24, 2024
The 2nd annual Vermont Film Festival is happening this Thursday through Sunday and is packed full with something for everyone. Because they offer so much, the best deal is the all-access $100 pass. That gets you all three days of films, the welcoming party at Ramunto's Brick and Brew of Bridgewater with comedic shorts upstairs…
For the love of good wine
July 17, 2024
My mom is going to kill me for writing this, but I had my first sip of wine at age 4. Actually it was four sips of wine, Manischewitz to be exact. So I don’t if it could actually be counted as wine, but I got to take one sip for each of the four cups…
Changing of the guard
July 17, 2024
I graduated from high school in 1984, and while many things in the world are just the same, many other things are radically different. First of all, there were no cell phones in 1984. If we wanted to talk to someone on the phone, we either had to be at home or had a dime…
Be the Earth’s hero
July 17, 2024
Be kind to the earth, Always and forever, It has helped you so much, Why not help it. How, you ask? Well the answer is simple: Recycle what you can, Pick up trash you find on the ground, Mother Nature thanks you for this, Because if you want to help the earth, If you want…
Facts are not the same as truths
July 17, 2024
There are times where the astrology of a given moment in time is so literal, it’s almost as though the letters printed on the parchment of an ancient tome leapt straight off and came to life. There are times in life where a nanosecond is all it takes for a moment to become definitive and…
Rockin’ the Region with ‘Nashville Nights’
July 17, 2024
Rivershed in Killington has been making a name for itself in only a few short years in town. Music is one of the highlights, and this Nashville collaboration has been a huge hit. This Friday July 19 you have a chance to see the fourth of its kind, titled “Nashville Nights”, at 7 p.m. I’ve…
Transitions: bonds grow deeper
July 17, 2024
Charles Wallace the Magnificent, a tribute part 6 Editor’s note: Bruce Bouchard is former executive director of The Paramount Theatre. John Turchiano, his friend for 52 years, was formerly the editor of Hotel Voice, a weekly newspaper on the New York Hotel Trades Council. They are co-authoring this column to tell short stories on a…
A new discovery about ancient land plants
July 17, 2024
A long time ago, not so far away, freshwater plants partnered with fungi and moved onto land from lake and river shores. Since that time, land plants have evolved many sophisticated strategies for terrestrial life. Yet to this day, growing in damp forests and on foggy mountainsides, are plants that embody ancient botanical history. Liverworts…
Steps, a 60-foot window and sleeping in sheets
July 17, 2024
Building our Killington Dream Lodge, part 22 Vermont was the best healing balm for Dad’s cancer and my Argentine trauma. Our spirits were truly at home in our Dream Lodge where my parents had just moved upstairs! I ran up the real steps (the slanted ladder was long gone) and let out a cheer when…
A life-changing experience abroad and for my dad, plus the addition of a second floor
July 10, 2024
Building a Killington Dream Lodge, part 21 Important steps were being taken in building our Killington dream lodge. Dad bought an oil tank and furnace. A septic field was laid out. They were all costly and progress was dictated by a limited budget and work just on weekends. When I completed my Kleiningersheim internship, Dr.…
Thick heavy water
July 10, 2024
It weighs on my chest, pressing downward with a force I never quite realized before. Each breath into my lungs feels slow, like I have to force the oxygen into my body rather than it just seeping in like normal. It’s heavy, this burden. The air is so thick it feels as though you are…
Pain is part of the game
July 10, 2024
I got into the habit many years ago of asking my son (whenever he was injured) how he rated his pain on a scale from 1 to 10. Inevitably, it was always a 10, but as time passed and he matured, the numbers varied, and the scale became a good gauge for me to discern…
Then and now
July 10, 2024
Many of the things that were part of our lives back in the ‘‘‘50s are so different today. Let’s take a look at some of them. When you wanted to reach someone by phone you picked up the receiver of your desk-top or wall phone, dialed the number and if the line was busy you…