2014 Commentators Brunch

My divorce was painful. A year later I tried to date, and I was still a mess.Another year passed, and one afternoon, I was driving home to Burlington…

Before my daughter’s first birthday, she climbed to the top of the stairs without my knowing it. One minute, we were downstairs together; next, I heard…

Our sons grew up watching Star Wars and constructing elaborate space ships out of Legos - not uncommon for young boys in the late 1970s and 80s. One of…

I come before you today to blow the whistle on a ubiquitous and pernicious aesthetic phenomenon in Vermont. Something that hides in plain sight, as…

They usually come in from the east, up high, one at a time, like a tribe of aliens insinuating itself on campus, faster and faster, hearts pumping and…

VPR's annual Commentator Brunch event for our Broadcasters Club members was held on Saturday, May 3, at The Essex Resort and Spa. At this event, VPR…

When my sister got married, she didn’t choose me as Maid of Honor. She chose her best friend. Tim. Who’s not a maid, he’s a guy. A guy left in charge of…

Stacks of packing boxes crowd the basement, along with disused appliances, discarded clothes, dented bicycle helmets, abandoned skis, a chandelier nobody…

My late mother never heard an adage in which she could not find a basic truth. For her, the idea of hiding in plain sight was actually contained in the…