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Faith in Vermont: I Just Can't Get That Song Out of My Head

Posted on September 4, 2018 | Blog Category:
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“I want to play you a song, to see if you know it,” my husband said to me at breakfast last week. 

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Faith in Vermont: ...And Things That Go Bump in the Night

Posted on August 21, 2018 | Blog Category:
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It’s happened many times before, but it happened again last night:

I was sleeping soundly, my brain floating through the mists of the sort of vague, rushed dreams one has when your consciousness knows that you’ve gone to bed too late – again – and that you’ll have to wake up too early. (Yes, I’m multi-tasking even in my dreams.) 

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Faith in Vermont: Why Not?

Posted on August 7, 2018 | Blog Category:
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Our telephone rang towards the end of dinner one night. My husband picked up the receiver; our neighbor was on the other end. 

“Are you hearing noises in the morning?” he asked.

It was an odd question to ask a family with four energetically verbal daughters, 19 chickens (including two roosters), seven ducks a-quacking, and one dog who barks at the slightest provocation. 

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Faith in Vermont: That's Lice

Posted on July 24, 2018 | Blog Category:
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 Someone once said, “Life is what happens to you when you’re making other plans.”

I might revise that to: “LICE are what happen to you when you’re making other plans.”

In my last column, I wrote about my fear of flying, which is at root a fear of falling.

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Faith in Vermont: Fear of Falling

Posted on July 10, 2018 | Blog Category:
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The other night, I dreamed of snow.

In my dream, the world was white. I was at my daughters’ preschool, sitting on a sled that was perched precariously atop the roof ridge. This didn’t seem particularly odd, because the roof was covered with snow, and snow was piled halfway up the sides of the building. Down below, the preschool teachers urged me to push off.

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Faith in Vermont: A Life Lived Deeply

Posted on June 19, 2018 | Blog Category:
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Until our family moved to Vermont, I had very little exposure to people aged 65 or older – the demographic often referred to as “senior citizens,” but which I prefer to think of as “elders.”

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Faith in Vermont: Goodbye, Ben Franklin

Posted on June 5, 2018 | Blog Category:
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The news came on the heels of other strange spring tidings in Addison County: There were warnings of severe storms bringing high winds and flooding, followed by fire danger alerts. There were the multiple bear sightings around Chipman Hill, as a mother and her three cubs beat a path of destruction between backyard bird feeders and compost bins. 

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Faith in Vermont: Love in the Poultry Yard

Posted on May 22, 2018 | Blog Category:
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“I think those hens are about to start a #MeToo movement,” my husband said, coming in one night after tucking our chickens into their coop. 

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Faith in Vermont: Watching My Daughters Climb

Posted on May 8, 2018 | Blog Category:
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All four of our daughters love climbing, but one of them has elevated climbing to a lifestyle.

I’m not talking about “climbing” in any metaphorical sense; I’m talking about actual climbing, defined in Webster’s Ninth Collegiate Dictionary as, “to draw or pull oneself up, over, or to the top of by using hands and feet.”

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Faith in Vermont: Brooklyn, Take Me In

Posted on April 24, 2018 | Blog Category:
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 “I’m still thinking about that man who lied to us,” my daughter said as I tucked her into bed the night we returned from a family weekend in New York City. 

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