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PAUL CHRISTENSEN
SNOW
It's snowing out. The first cold precipitation since last winter. And last winter was sparsely precipitated, hardly enough crystal to...
IN OUR HOUR OF NEED
Climate change seems to have infected not only our weather but our politics as well. You can't predict the next move Trump will take to...
EPILOGUE TO A BETTER TIME
It was pleasant lying in bed last night listening to the rain patter against the eaves. All the usual night critters were silent for a...
PLAYING THE GAME
Let's say you're on the third string of your high school football team, and you watch as a rubber-armed quarterback keeps missing the...
THE PAINTING CIRCLE
My wife is off painting with her friends in an old farmhouse kitchen. They talk more than paint, she tells me. There's a leisurely...
THE FALL WEATHER
The first chill of autumn is threading its way through the trees, like a brown yarn among the dense green flags. It's exhilarating. I'm...
TRUMP THE CLOWN
Trump keeps falling through trap doors while speaking to the press. The door flies open, he is whisked away into the darkness with his...
SUMMER IS HERE
Summer comes so suddenly into the hills and the little valley towns of Vermont, no one is quite prepared to accept it. It bursts in upon...
THE ROAD TRIP
I remember my father saying once while he drove us to New Orleans one summer, that the sound my mother heard was the tar seams in the...
TALKING TO STRANGERS
I'm fairly timid when it comes to voicing my political feelings to strangers. I assume that the person I am addressing will hold the...
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