What I Learned Today

I would love to blog everyday but it just doesn't happen these days. I do learn something new each day, but a lot of it just isn't worth blogging about.

Thursday, April 3, 2025

Courier Journal - Fall/Winter 2024

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As it turns out, working as a courier in the deep of winter in Northern New England is exhausting. I was doing this job last winter, but tha...

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Courier Journal - Summer 2024

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Twenty four years ago, when I moved to Vermont, a Boston friend told me that I'd be back. I would get bored. She could not be more wrong...

Monday, September 23, 2024

How Jim Rice Cured Me of Racism

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I grew up around a lot of racism. We were a neighborhood of mostly white, working class Catholics of French Canadian origin. The N word was ...

Friday, July 26, 2024

Trumps Second Term: Worst Case Scenario

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I have always been a bit of pessimist. It is more of defense mechanism than anything. If I assume the worst is going to happen, when it does...

Thursday, July 4, 2024

My Grieving for American Democracy

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American democracy is dying. It has been dying for quite some time, a long slow painful death. After this past week, one could pronounce it ...

Thursday, June 27, 2024

Courier Journal - Spring 2024

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It is amazing what a different city Burlington is when the warm weather comes. I attribute this to three factors: Once the colleges let out,...

Monday, June 3, 2024

Game of Thrones: Book to Film (S1E1)

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With the exception of Tolkien, I've never been a big fan of fantasy fiction. I've tried. I've read many others, but none of them...

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