When I turned 40 I started two routines that somewhat eased my mind. First, I began to wear make-up. Second, I started buying myself birthday presents before my birthday.

Quick recap: White House correspondent Jim Acosta has been a fly in the president’s ointment for a while. It’s no secret not everyone loves him as a reporter and some White House colleagues even feel he’s something of a grand-stander. But like him or not, there’s no denying that Acosta has fired direct questions at the President and press secretary.

Thanksgiving’s my favorite holiday. I love to relax with family and friends, share a meal, and reflect on our many blessings.

On October 28th, a little more than a week before our midterm elections, an American soldier in Afghanistan, Major Brent Taylor, posted his thoughts on Facebook about the coming election.

The billion dollar Edna McConnell Clark Foundation has announced that it will donate all its money and go out of business in 2026.

The concept of Restorative Practices in school isn’t new. It’s grown out of the Restorative Justice work gaining momentum in the VT justice system.

In the Spring of 1969, I worked as an apprentice at Hill & Dale Farm on Putney Mountain, near Brattleboro. It was the beginning of the “Back to the Land Movement” and "hippie” influx. At Hill and Dale, we raised apples, vegetables and animals in a pasture-based system. It was one of first organic farms in Vermont.

Sitting bundled up on the porch at hunting camp, I put pieces of cornbread on the arm of my chair, and wait. I know somebody's watching. Yep, in a couple of minutes a drab gray-and-black bird, almost like a magpie, appears suddenly, silently at the end of the porch.

With Democrats in the House and Republicans in the Senate digging in for political battles to come, you can sense there’s history happening.

When Dr. Robert Chaffee saw Walter Cabot Paine waving a long-handled butterfly net in a field of goldenrod beside a parking lot in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, he thought, “Now, there’s somebody I should meet,” and stopped to introduce himself.