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PAUL CHRISTENSEN
The Dead of Winter
The coldest air yet of this erratic winter has settled down over the house and the little stand of trees beside us. I came out this...
The Torpors of Winter
It’s cold in the house and I am too lazy to get up from the desk and fix myself a cup of tea. I would welcome the warmth, and the...
THE NIGHT VISITOR
This morning, faced with having to brave the arctic morning air to get to my mailbox on the road below, there were tracks in the still...
THE FIRST SNOW OF WINTER
The first snow of winter here in central Vermont has now fallen. It came late this year, late by several months, according to the TV...
THE PARADOX OF DIVERSITY
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the history of American immigration is all about bringing in scab labor to keep down wages...
VIGILANCE AT SEA
My wife and I once sailed on the Mariel Bolton, a Chinese-made freighter with five cavernous holds loaded with lemon peels soaked in...
Veritas, Inc
True story: a regent at a prominent university in Texas sat down with other governor-appointed regents to review the paperwork for scores...
WHY WE NEED MONSTERS
There’s a headline in today’s New York Times, “Big TV Kill-Offs May Be Losing Their Punch,” that points to the fact that “deaths” on...
FREUD'S HYDRAULIC JACK
They say Freud found one of his principal metaphors about neurosis from the newly invented hydraulic jack, in which a chamber is filled...
On Solitude
I remember a teacher calling my name through a fog of meandering thoughts, and seeing all the faces in class turn to look back at me as I...
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