Clippings
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Clippings: A summer day with fall foliage
As I write this, It’s almost painfully beautiful outside. It is the weekend of the 25th of September, on Saturday. It’s like a mid-summer day, with temperatures nearly…
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Clippings: The importance of our local history
History has become a controversial topic, and rightly so. Much of what children and teenagers are given in the United States details history primarily centered around white supremacy…
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Clippings: Daddy’s Big Dangerous Day
The other day my 3-year-old, Frankie, told us a story. “Once upon a time Daddy was in the middle of the road,” she began. “On the yellow line.”…
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Clippings: Free food was a day-long investment
You should know at the outset that I am a perimeter-of-the-grocery-store, CSA-subscribing, grow-your-own, Co-op-shopping, bring-your-own-bag, environmentally conscious kind of person when it comes to food. So when my…
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Clippings: Pregnant during a global pandemic
I’ve never felt much like one of those beautiful, glowing pregnant people. I hear they exist, but as far as I’m concerned those folks are unicorns. It’s hard…
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Clippings: London is not calling anymore
The world has changed so much so fast this year that I haven’t had the chance to feel shocked that my family’s spring break trip to London —…
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Clippings: Take this 10-minute challenge
I often tease my husband when he is driving because he touches his face constantly and it drives me crazy. Every 30 seconds the hand leaves the steering…
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Clippings: ‘Stolen time and heart’
“What do you think about that movie ‘Love, Actually’?” wrote my friend in an email several years ago. We’ll call this friend “the Lorgnette” (as in: opera glasses).…
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Clippings: The coronavirus is hurting the public’s right to know
After 35 years in reporting, I thought I’d been through a lot as a journalist. Martial law in the Philippines. A couple natural disasters — the big ice…
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Clippings: Automythology: A writer drives west
One of my favorite writers is Ernest Hebert, author of seven novels in his Darby Chronicles series, and a number of other works of fiction. Hebert grew up…
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Clippings: Meditation on a hoop in the woods
On his first day on the job at Bard College, my son David met Mackie, the director of admissions. It was love at first sight and it blossomed:…
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Clippings by Karl Lindholm: They’re just dogs — or are they?
I tire at times of people who rhapsodize about their dogs, posting pictures on social media and making every conversation dog-talk. “They’re dogs,” I grumble. “Animals. Not people.…
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Clippings by Emma Cotton: Truths are found through listening
I appreciate journalism as an occupation because it provides an opportunity to dive into perspectives I wouldn’t otherwise have a reason to understand. Sources open the door and…
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Clippings by Nora Peachin: Fighting for the local food system
When I was applying to colleges, I spent a good amount of time poking around on different institutions’ websites. Scrolling through Middlebury College’s newsfeed, I stumbled upon a…