Yesterday at school, we were talking with our students about the importance of things not being easy all the time. The teacher I work with pointed out that if second grade was always easy, with no mistakes made and no struggles to be had, there wouldn’t be a point to being in second grade. I …
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Get the Funk Up
I haven’t been getting to my daily posts much lately, despite my best efforts. I started a new job a couple weeks ago, and I’ve mostly been focusing my writing time on personal journaling. But as I write this, there are just a few hours left in August, and that means autumn starts tomorrow, at …
A Call For Support
There are milestones in life that we automatically designate as “joyful,” but sometimes those things don’t turn out as expected. We’ve certainly learned that over the past year and a half as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted weddings, reunions, graduations, and so many more big events that were supposed to be happy times. I recently learned …
Looking Back On an Olympic Time
Franklin County is a rural area on the U.S./Canadian border in northwest Vermont. Some 49,000 people populate the 14 towns and one city across 692 square miles. This county is one of the few in Vermont that can still pass the sniff test (quite literally when it’s time to spread cow manure on the fields) …
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In a few hours, it’ll be the seventeenth anniversary of the last time someone saw Brianna Maitland. At least as far as we know. Brianna Maitland Brianna hasn’t been seen since leaving The Black Lantern Inn – her place of employment – in Montgomery, VT, after her shift ended on March 19, 2004. The next …
