I’m not a video game guy. My gaming skills peaked at the House of Pizza in Morrisville, Vt., in April 1986. For a few glorious hours, I had the high score on the Centipede arcade game and was the coolest 12-year-old in Lamoille County (in my mind, at least). I didn’t own a gaming system …
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Why I Write: A Book of Letters
If I’ve read Dear Mr. Henshaw once – and I established in this month’s installment of With Apologies to Hornby that I recently did – I’ve read it at least 50 times. From fourth through most of eighth grade, that book was my go-to. I’d read it, close it, flip to the beginning and start …
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 …
An Unscientific Method
Cardy Raper A couple of weeks back, I was given the opportunity to interview scientist Cardy Raper about her post-retirement career as an author. In addition to being the first in an ongoing series of pieces I'm writing for the League of Vermont Writers, the interview was an absolute delight, and I'm so grateful that …
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, …
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