I don’t know how people who travel a lot keep sane. I’ve been away three weekends in a row, four out of five, and I feel like the threads of my life are unraveling.

I was supposed to be home this weekend, but ended up being away for a lot of it. Rich was involved in a project in Burlington, which led to a free hotel room on Saturday night. So ( Read more... )

Lobbyists can be obnoxious.

Every year, Montpelier High School students spend a few hours one day in September cleaning up the river that runs behind the school. Because of the dozens of abandoned tires they take out every single year, the students started working years ago on a tire deposit bill as a way to solve the problem of tires being dumped ( Read more... )

I'm sharing these two additional photos from the photographer at the paper

Pretty rainbow:


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Yesterday was graduation. Description and pictures

Administrators decided that a less-than 50 percent chance of rain was worth risking, and decided to hold graduation outdoors. The morning was gorgeous - hot, sunny, clear skies.

The afternoon was a graduation party at a friend's house. Two teachers - their fifth grade teacher and a much-loved high ( Read more... )

Graduation is tomorrow. The weather forecast includes chances of thunderstorms. How much risk is the administration willing to take? Because if they play it safe it’ll be indoors, which would be sad -- not to mention hot and sticky.

Caroline got sick Wednesday. She felt better this morning, so went on an outing, but just took her temperature and ( Read more... )

First, a link to the slide show of the dresses designed and created by Morgan.

Behind the cut, the photo shoot at my house.

First, a nice one of the four girls:


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Today has been an exceedingly long and tiring day ( Read more... )

"Rapping in the 802"

It took us forever to write this headline for today’s paper - and it’s not even that good (
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I remember in high school being bummed that I wasn’t voted “Class Writer.” In my yearbook, we had a modest number of “class celebrities” - class writer, actor, artist, athlete, dancer, singer, doer (yes, lame I know). For some reason we didn’t have “most likely to succeed” - I have a very vague memory that this was on purpose, because we thought it ( Read more... )