Happy New Year 2013

Happy New Year 2013

     The second day of the New Year got off to a good start – Restorative Iyengar yoga in the morning, recommitment to the diet that has been successful in 2012, (no gluten, no dairy, no sugar except sometimes wine) and then to one of my...
The Morning After

The Morning After

       I sort of love the day back to work after the holidays. You get to say “Happy New Year!” to everyone for the next few days in your most upbeat voice. You are done with all the frantic celebrating and overconsuming. Even...
Dear Hunters

Dear Hunters

     It’s hunting season here in Vermont, deer hunting with rifles right now, I believe. Deer, moose, bear, and turkeys – they each have their own times and rules, plus there are different dates for bow and arrow hunting. More people than...
Velvet Underground

Velvet Underground

       What fabric do you always, suddenly, want to wear this time of year? Anything velvet, although irridescent tafettas and red plaids are close contenders. (I have a thing for those red plaid pants that some of the dads would wear to Christmas Eve church.) Every...
Green Screen Girls

Green Screen Girls

     I have two beautiful, brilliant, fantastic daughters who are, thankfully, remarkably confident and happy teenagers (well, pre-teen in the younger daughter’s case, not that you’d know it). We moved to Vermont from New York for the...
I ‘Heart’ VT

I ‘Heart’ VT

     The 10th anniversary of 9/11 has come & gone, marked this year with admirable restraint from the fear-mongering politicians who turned the attacks into their justifications for denying our civil liberties and going to war. I don’t think I...