The Way I See It: Exodus
My father, the mathematician, was born in Leipzig in 1922. When the Nazis marched into Austria in the early spring of 1938 — the Anschluss — my father was called into the principal’s office at the...
View ArticleThe Way I See It: The Rubber of Time Meets the Road
By Rickey Gard Diamond I have never been a good clock-watcher. Back in pre-COVID times, my clever husband used to exaggerate the timing of movies or restaurant reservations, too familiar with my habit...
View ArticleContempt or Just Indifference?
By Peter Burmeister One or both of these has to be the appropriate description of the City of Montpelier’s relationship to the Capital City Farmers Market. Having been banished from its previous...
View ArticleFall Semester: Pandemic Edition
By Nina Appasamy The year 2020 is like a Bingo game that no one wants to play: instead of prizes there are just new calamities that make the real world feel more like a dystopian novel. In most years,...
View ArticleLimit the Summer Legislative Session
By Renée Carpenter Vermont, like the rest of the country, is experiencing unusual and challenging times as we try to address the parameters of containing COVID-19. People must focus on staying safe,...
View ArticleEvery Precious Thing
My Christmas tree tells a story of light and dark, of the weighty and sacred sweep of my life. Here is a miniature stocking my Grandmama Watson handed me 50 years ago, lifting it down from her sparse...
View ArticleOpinion: A Sign of Changing Times
It seems quite a few Montpelier residents were startled to see a new entry sign on Memorial Drive at the Main Street Bridge. While its appearance and location are debatable, and may be debated...
View ArticleOpinion: Coping With Fear in a Changing World
We’re in the first months of surge 2 and here I am again, wondering where we all are, where we’re headed and when will this end? This time my fear has significantly diminished in ways that make me...
View ArticleA Love Affair Revealed: Entranced and Seduced by Balsam Firs
With my 76th year having arrived in the gloom of January, I ponder not only my past, but with resolve mixed equally with trepidation, my future. Writing memoirs provides an opportunity to make sense...
View ArticleSolutions in Today’s Challenging Retirement Income Environment
Investing used to be easier for retirees. Many sought to generate enough income from the yield created by bonds or short-term investments such as money market funds to meet their living expenses....
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