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Faith in Vermont: Riding in the Death Star

Posted on February 27, 2018 | Blog Category:
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“I bought us a truck,” my husband announced one night as he walked into the house after a day at the office.

My daughters reacted to the news as if we’d just announced a candy-only dinner, a week off of school, and a trip to the beach, combined: a squealing, jumping, hands-in-the-air impromptu dance party. The first two questions they articulated were:

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Faith in Vermont: Oh, My Dog!

Posted on February 13, 2018 | Blog Category:
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Of all the human and non-human species that make up our family, I’ve written the least about our dog, Gracie. My daughters always do nutty things, the ducks and chickens teach us about life and death, and my husband is the “straight man” in the midst of the chaos.

But Gracie, our five-year-old labradoodle, is complicated.

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Faith in Vermont: Safety

Posted on January 30, 2018 | Blog Category:
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It was this year’s peculiar cocktail of sub-zero temperatures, accumulating snow, thaws with mixed precipitation followed by a return to freezing temperatures – combined with the heavy clay soil and topography of our property – that turned our yard into a skating rink.

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Faith in Vermont: Typewriters, and the Future of Vermont

Posted on January 16, 2018 | Blog Category:
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Last Sunday afternoon, a friend invited me to accompany her to a screening of Doug Nichol’s new documentary film, “California Typewriter,” at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater.

Sunday afternoons are usually times I set aside to write this column, but the opportunity to go with an (adult!) friend to watch a film (for adults!) was too good to pass up.

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Faith in Vermont: This Little Light

Posted on December 19, 2017 | Blog Category:
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One week ago, my daughters made beeswax candles for the first time. Before you get impressed, this was not the sort of candle making that involves dipping wicks into a vat of hot wax; our sort of candle making involved ordering sheets of colored beeswax and a spool of wicking. Cut a length of wicking about one inch longer than the beeswax, lay it at one end of the sheet, and roll. Voila!

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Faith in Vermont: Missing Santa Claus

Posted on December 5, 2017 | Blog Category:
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Our family missed Santa Claus this year.

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Faith in Vermont: For the Boy Next Door

Posted on November 21, 2017 | Blog Category:
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When we moved into our current house, we moved next door to a boy. He’s an only child, and we share part of our long driveway with him and his mother.

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Faith in Vermont: Curiouser and Curiouser

Posted on November 7, 2017 | Blog Category:
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“The flags are lowered again! What happened this time, Mama?”

I was driving three of my daughters along Route 7, down to Brandon for a rehearsal of their homeschool production of Alice in Wonderland.

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Faith in Vermont: I Feel Sad About Target

Posted on October 24, 2017 | Blog Category:
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It’s not often that Vermont makes the national news, but on October 19, Vermont leaped to the top of my NPR news feed with the headline: “After 55 Years, Target Will Finally Open a Store in Vermont.”

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Faith in Vermont: Doing All the Things

Posted on October 10, 2017 | Blog Category:
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“You should write about this in your next column,” my nine-year-old daughter said.

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