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All Posts: Vermont
Now is usually the time to write the obligatory “summer is ending and I’m feeling wistful” post, but to do so would be disingenuous. Yes, I love fireflies and ice cream and corn-on-the-cob as much as the next person, but you know what I don’t like? Mosquitoes. Heat and humidity. Aimless children bickering in the [...]
I haven’t been taking too many actual pictures during our Vermont vacation this year, choosing instead to take mental photographs. In some ways these are better because I record them with all my senses: The sweet honey scent of freshly mowed grass, the warmth of sun on skin, the small burst of sour-sweetness on my [...]
I don’t know about where you are, but May around these parts is all kinds of crazy. Both my boys are playing Little League baseball and between the practices, games, to say nothing of end-of-year concerts, galas, field trips, and family days, there’s been a certain amount of mayhem. It’s enough to get a girl [...]
I wrote earlier this week about the Mad River Glen ski area, which has what I consider to be one of the more brilliant slogans I’ve ever seen: “Ski it if you can.” As you can imagine, the bumper stickers bearing this slogan are a hot item (my own car boasts one). Now Mad River [...]
I never planned to give up downhill skiing, but between marrying a flatlander who had never skied himself, moving to Delaware, and having kids, somehow getting on skis just never made it to the top of the priority list until this winter. But when Matt and I finally decided that it was do or die, [...]
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