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PAUL CHRISTENSEN
A WINTER OF DISCONTENT
I have been pondering the results of the recent presidential election, as you have too. The talk at the dinner table often withers away...
TOMORROW CREEPS IN ITS PETTY PACE
It's one o'clock in the afternoon on Monday, the 4th of November, the day before the national election. I am as troubled and sleepless as...
A DIARY OF WINTER
The cold came in silent as an owl. The fences stared out at the clenched landscape with gaping eyes, unlocked gates, a path already...
INTERPRETING YOUTUBE
YouTube is full of mini-documentaries on how other animals express love for one another, and remember the kindness paid to them by human...
AT SEA ON THE QUEEN MARY TWO
AT SEA ON THE QUEEN MARY 2 I recall sitting down before a large portal on one of the lower decks of the ship I was travelling on to...
Sailing the Seas of Memory
Five days into our sea voyage and we are in a hazy, slightly coolish mid-day. It's another day and a half before we slow down and head...
IN PANIC MODE
I'm in panic mode as I write this. In two days we must quit the house and take the train to NYC, spend two days in a cheap hotel and take...
THE TRUTH WILL OUT
Spring keeps trying to break through the slate roof stretching over Vermont. Tendrils of sunlight pierce a few cracks and are smothered...
THE LAST BIG SNOW
There's enough snow on the ground from our latest storm to cover the Sahara with a nice rich frosting. Schools are closed, the road...
OLD MANHATTAN PALACE
I had a serious case of cabin fever here in central Vermont a few days ago. I told my wife I had to get out and wanted to go to New York,...
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