• 6 ears of very fresh Vermont corn
• 4 tablespoons Vermont butter
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup Vermont cream...
You know how Anthony felt about Cleopatra? How PETA feels about fuzzy bunnies? Or Don Quixote felt about Dulcinea? That's how Ruth, my spouse and jewel of loveliness, feels about her tomatoes. She even has nicknames for them. She refers to them as her “maties.” I know this sounds...
Not long before I arrived back in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where I taught in 2005 and 2006, for an extended visit, a plethora of sad things happened throughout the world. There was the cyclone in Burma (Myanmar), the earthquake in China, the tornadoes in the American Southeast, fires in...
I think some youths in Brattleboro feel a need to have some pride and dignity in being working class, and the model of that, that they are choosing, is the racist redneck. This leaves the working-class youths desperately grasping for some dignity, with no help with that from the community they see around them. I also think this is a symptom of oh-so-progressive southeastern Vermont in general in that we are a very classist place. The fact is, there are...