Faith in Vermont
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Faith Gong: Why keep a garden, chickens, or children?
This will likely be a short column, because we are in the midst of putting in our garden. I have a complex relationship with my garden — as,…
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Faith Gong: The greater good
In order for me to have time and quiet in which to write this column, my husband took all five of our children to ride bikes around their…
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Faith Gong: Breathless
I’ve seen several articles lately in which mental health professionals explain the emotions that humankind is experiencing right now — when the worldwide death toll from the COVID-19…
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Faith Gong: A letter from quarantine
I wasn’t sure what this column should be about. Then, I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to write it. Last week, I thought, “Everyone’s writing about the…
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Faith Gong: Comfy Chair Wars
I’ll be honest with you: It’s not easy for me to focus on writing this column. Last night, we turned the clocks ahead one hour, but the baby…
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Faith Gong: On February, and the search for home
After a fairly lackluster winter, we had our first big snowstorm yesterday. Today, the world beyond my windows is gorgeous. Because the snow was preceded by ice, the…
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Faith Gong: American orphans
Our children had some friends over this past weekend, and they decided to embark on an outdoor adventure. The negotiations, as I overheard them, went something like this:…
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Faith Gong: Of hospitals and hawks
One thing I’ve learned over the past few weeks is that we are able to endure a great deal more than we believe is possible. Life is not…
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Faith Gong: How to Thrive
I have never been a big New Year’s person. As an introvert, I’d rather be curled up at home in pajamas with a book than at a late-night…
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Faith Gong: The art of waiting
“I can’t stand it! I just can’t wait any longer!” I hear these words from my daughters on a daily basis, it seems. Sometimes they’re spoken in frustration,…
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Faith Gong: Holiday hullabaloo makes for tired mom
We were just between the main course and dessert of our Thanksgiving meal, when my daughters asked when we could start decorating for Christmas. Once I’d convinced them…
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Meditations on Stick Season
I’m not sure if I can still call this “stick season,” since snow has lain on the ground for a week now. The most accurate definition of stick…
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Faith Gong: The hole in the wall
While there were many things that attracted us to our current house, the house itself was not one of them. Our house was built in three distinct installments,…
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Faith Gong: A sigh is just a sigh
Our families know us best. The people who live with us, who see us first thing in the morning and last thing in the evening, who have front…
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Faith Gong: The only alpine slide in Vermont
Vermont is a small state, so it’s easy to assume that after living here eight years we would be aware of all the attractions Vermont has to offer…
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Faith Gong: Appliance angst
Our first clue that the appliances were turning against us was when the oven refused to heat up. It happened at the worst possible moment, of course: A…