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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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Faith in Vermont: April Showers

Posted on April 10, 2018 | Blog Category:
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During the last days of March, we fell asleep to the sound of rain on the roof for the first time in a very long time. I awoke in the morning to the sound of morning doves calling, filling a months-long silence.

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Faith in Vermont: (Not) Wheeling and Dealing at Barter Day

Posted on March 27, 2018 | Blog Category:
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Faith in Vermont: Curses!

Posted on March 13, 2018 | Blog Category:
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“Mommy broke the compost bin and said a bad word!”

On the first Friday of March, my daughters broadcast this announcement to every person we saw: friends, family, neighbors, check-out clerks. It was BIG NEWS in our household, because it was the first time my daughters had heard me swear.

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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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