Can you walk 30 miles in 30 days?

‏Come Alive Outside invites Vermonters to join their Mile-A-Day walking challenge during April and May this year.

As soon as I hit “send” on last week’s column, I began pondering various works of literature that illustrated the virtues of walking and which have inspired me over the years to be more appreciative of the practice.

My wife Deborah and I recently moved from an in-town dwelling in Middlebury back to an in-woods dwelling in Bristol. In the house we just left, it was hard to look in any direction without seeing another house. In the house we just moved back into, it’s h … (read more)

We’re all feeling the stress of the current situation. Social stress indicators such as domestic violence are up as the whole world faces this unprecedented event.  What to do?  We’ve all read about the health exception to the Stay at Home Order: get outs … (read more)