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Last winter during the Reading Recreation Commission’s Winter Concert Series, I enjoyed talking to the folks who played the four shows...

I was on the phone with my neighbor the other day, and I told her that one of the things I love about this time of the year is that...

I visited a friend in New Hampshire last week, and we took a walk by the lake near his house. While we watched a couple of yellow...

Summer! I can finally say it after weeks and weeks of complaining about woeful winter and stinky spring. The windows are open, the...

Greetings from Ulvik, Norway. It’s a town of about 1,200 people at the very end of Hardangerfjord. At 179 kilometers or 111 miles, it is...

Maybe a dozen years ago, I went to an event called Old Home Day in Delaware County, New York. That this event was called Old Home Day, my...

Usually on this weekend, Reading holds its biggest annual event: Old Home Day. If you’ve been to it—and I assume that if you live in...

Tomorrow's the big day. The beginning of summer. How do you feel about that? Me, I'm blasé. Why? Because here it is June 20, and I'm...

When I was young, I read comic books. What kid didn't? Every month, my younger brother and I walked to the convenience store that sold...

According to the Eye on the Sky weather guys, this cool and wet weather is good for the grass. I have the evidence that proves that they...

I'm going to start my column with a little bit of business and town news before I get to some beautiful stuff. The Planning Commission...

Dear Month of May, Did I pour it on too thick, when I spoke in my columns through March and April about how much I was looking forward to...

I was scanning my old columns to see what I’d written about in past middle-of-Mays. Back on May 17, 2017, or two years ago tomorrow, I...

It’s that time of the season—the seed-starting season—where everything needs to be transplanted. I have repotted my brussels sprouts...

As recently as ten days ago, I had bet myself that the pile of snow that had accumulated below the intersection of three roofs behind our...

Lately, my days have been happily bookended by robins. As spring progresses and the sun rises a little earlier every day, so, it seems,...

Early last week, I was talking to someone who told me he has seasonal affective disorder. Looking out the window as it was snowing, he...

I went to a meeting at Vermont Public Radio in Colchester last week. Seeing the Green Mountains as I drove, I was reminded that Vermont,...

Memos to me: First, the weather in Vermont is not like the weather in the Bahamas. Second, the sun at 25-degrees latitude is much more...

One thing I don’t love about social media at this time of the year are postings from my friends and family in Massachusetts and New York...