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Our Newest Addition
According to our family’s well-loved edition of D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths, Hermes, the “merriest of the Olympians, was the god of shepherds, travelers, merchants, thieves, and all others who...
View ArticleLife vs. Liberty
It all started with 11 secondhand chickens that friends packed into plastic bins and drove to our house. Those original 11 birds reproduced themselves, and the widescale slaughter we’d expected at...
View ArticleGarden Guilt
Please, don’t tell me that you’ve spent all day working out in the garden. I see you, anyway: out in your yards, industriously raking leaves out of your garden beds, shoveling mulch, setting up your...
View ArticleInside the Blue Whale
This past week, as I’ve done for the past six years, I spent three straight days at Branbury Beach State Park, where I spent three hours each day teaching nature classes to children aged 5-11 as part...
View ArticleOf 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 a benevolent tutor, handing down lessons one at a time in order...
View ArticleWhy 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, I suspect, do many. Starting around March, a feeling that...
View ArticleAlpaca Dreamin’
I’ve been known to say, “More love is always a good thing!” I’ve been known to live that maxim, too, which is how I ended up with a husband, five children, a dog, a cat, 18 chickens, and 8 ducks. But I...
View ArticleMaintaining
We went to Maine this summer. It felt like a minor miracle that we were able to pull off this trip: the only normal, scheduled event that hasn’t been cancelled in our lives since the COVID-19 pandemic...
View ArticleA tale of two roosters
Fall has arrived suddenly and dramatically in Vermont, with plunging temperatures and nighttime frosts. This shouldn’t have surprised, me, as this has hardly been a year of subtlety; nothing seems to...
View ArticleOf Hospitals and Hawks (Faith’s Version)
If you’re celebrating the traditional Twelve Days of Christmas, today is “The Feast of the Holy Innocents.” It’s an odd celebration to place in the midst of a joyous holiday season, reminding us that...
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