Care Package: 1. A parcel of food, money, or luxury items sent to a loved one who is away. 2. A digital gathering of cultural touchstones on ethandezotelle.com, put together to brighten your day a bit. Pete Hartt Thirteen years ago today, my editor and friend Pete Hartt passed away. I’ve written about him here …
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Three Things, Day 2: Heart, Sole & Synthwave
1.Today I am grateful for a good checkup. When we adopted our rescue dog Ziti a little over a year ago, we were told she was recovering from heart worms. Her visit visit to our vet revealed that rather than recovering from them, a decent population of the parasites were still living rent-free in her …
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Fifteen Years Gone (REPOST)
Thursday, March 19, 2020: Brianna Maitland disappeared 16 years ago tonight. I didn't want the wild situation the world is in to obscure that important fact. What happened to Brianna is still a mystery, and her loved ones mourn her absence still. Tomorrow I'll write something from a fresh perspective, but I wanted to repost …
Why I Write: Writing from the Hartt
“I feel like a farmer watching his corn grow. This is great!” It was another Wednesday morning at The Stowe Reporter, the weekly newspaper in Stowe, VT, that gave me my first full-time job as a reporter. We were up against our deadline, and I was in my office, pounding out the last article I …
Fifteen Years Gone
Every time I drive by the old Dutchburn place on Route 118 in Montgomery, I think of someone I’ve never met before. It’s a small, vacant lot now, an unassuming corn field behind it, the Trout River flowing along at the back of the property. But there used to be an old two-story house there, …