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Dante’s Tenth Circle

An edited version of this piece appeared on Salon.com on July 28, 2011

When my fiancé broke up with me last August, he consigned me [continued...]

Off the Markowitz

Published in Seven Days 7dvt.com On July 28, 2010

I was disappointed with the Seven Days article about Deb Markowitz [“On Your Markowitz,” July 14]. I wondered if the interviewer had even met her, so dry and “reportery” was the piece. One of Deb’s strengths is her dynamic personality: inspiring people to work [continued...]

MUD

This article was originally published in The Bridge, Montpelier, VT

Sugaring season in Vermont is the start of the fluid run.  The temperature is just perfect for the sap, the blood of a tree, to start running through the trees veins.  Boiled down we get Vermont gold – Maple syrup.    But everything starts to run at [continued...]

Flatlander in Vermont

Published in The Bridge, Montpelier, VT, January 21, 2010 -

Technically, I suppose, I am a flat lander.  I’m pretty sure it doesn’t count that I have lived most of my adult life – since graduating from the decidedly flat lands of a New York City university – in the mountains.  Huge, towering, snow capped all [continued...]

Quills and Cats

An edited version of this piece was first published in  The Times Argus, Montpelier, Vermont, December 13, 2009.

Last winter in deep snow near my house, I encountered a set of large prints by the creek. I followed the trail, my head bowed toward the ground, until I noticed the tracks disappear into scrub. I [continued...]

Socked In

First published in The Northfield News, Vermont, November 25, 2009

Once a year, for the past thirty years, the annual Sock Sale takes place in Northfield, Vermont.  People come from all over New England to get merino wool, silk, cashmere and organic cotton socks.  Tina, from Ithaca, NY was buying peds.  “I don’t even wear peds,” [continued...]

I, Trapper

First published in The Jerusalem Post, Israel, November 27, 2007

I was raised a nice Jewish girl in central Massachusetts. We were Reform Jews and only went to temple on special occasions, like bar mitzvas and weddings. We even had Christmas stockings during my mother’s hippy- feminist-experimental phase. We ate bacon. I did go to Hebrew [continued...]

Ah, Spring

First published in The Nelson Daily News, Nelson, BC, May, 2007

Ah spring!  The smell is in the air.  The birds are chirping.  The flowers are opening.  The water is flowing.  The two stroke motors are revving.

Aargh!

This is the story of spring and summer in the little bowl-like valley that is Nelson.

When a train pulls through [continued...]

Letter to the Anti-Furs

This letter was written to The Star newspaper in BC, Canada in response to an anti-trapping demonstration

Dear Editor,

If the people at Wild at Heart really want to protect animals in Canada (re: the anti-fur rally in Toronto today), they are going about it the wrong way.  The destruction of the environment due to obscene logging [continued...]