Mary McCallum
CommentatorMary McCallum is a freelance writer and former prison librarian who now works with Vermont elders.
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When my aging terrier started slowing down last year, I took it in stride. She was twelve, and according to an online calculator, old enough to collect… -
So I’ve been thinking a lot about France again – and not only because of the devastating Notre-Dame fire. News that the Vermont Senate had just given… -
Because I’m a writer and a former librarian, a friend once gave me a refrigerator magnet that says in bold print, I Am Silently Judging Your Grammar. But… -
Winter’s sudden arrival this fall marked the end of a large road paving project in my town. The resurfacing of a two-lane state highway that stretches… -
When The Statue of Liberty was under construction, the young American writer Emma Lazarus was asked to compose a poem that could be auctioned off as a… -
The word community is in the news a lot these days. We hear about the black community, the LGBTQ community, the deaf community, the science community -… -
Lately it seems like everyone’s got a squirrel story. Newspapers, radio and the internet have been buzzing about the exploding population of Sciurus… -
One recent pristine summer afternoon, two people drowned on a popular southern Vermont lake. From a festive plastic float, they’d waved hello to others… -
Lately, the critters in and around my house remind me of an old movie title about the good, the bad and the ugly. Gardening and hiking are now fraught…
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This spring, the Vermont General Assembly passed a resolution commemorating the 100th anniversary of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s birth. Ten years after the…
