Missing the Marathon
For several years on the Sunday before Memorial Day my wife and I ran the marathon in Burlington. I haven't run it since 2002. It happened this past Sunday and I keep bumping into people... More »
For several years on the Sunday before Memorial Day my wife and I ran the marathon in Burlington. I haven't run it since 2002. It happened this past Sunday and I keep bumping into people... More »
Coming home from the Memorial Day parade in Vergennes this afternoon, my daughter asked me about the "guns," meaning the muskets, that frightened her and her brother enough that we left right after things got... More »
The first day of the long Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of summer, we did these things: Created a rustic tower for pole beans from branches we dragged from the woods. The kids insisted... More »
As of today, 3,455 US service personnel have died in Iraq since the start of the war. Others have died, too, of course. From the UK, 149 have died, and 127 have died from other... More »