Katy Van Sant: COVID Zombie
Katy Van Sant struggles to cope with the COVID virus that has invaded her body.
Sep 15, 2021•4 min
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John Levine: It’s No Joke
John Levine tries to teach humor to a classroom of masked students.
Sep 14, 2021•4 min
Conor Hagen: Tasteless
Conor Hagen discovers just how wonderful taste and smell are when COVID takes them away.
Sep 13, 2021•4 min
Michael Ellis: Yellow Jackets
There's one creature that Michael Ellis just can't abide.
Sep 10, 2021•4 min
Jack Green: The Cosmonaut
Ryan was mocked by his schoolmates, but Jack befriended him. And then, one day, Ryan was gone.
Sep 09, 2021•4 min
Steven Paradise: Do Something To Remember
Steven Paradise shares his thoughts on how to mark the anniversary of 9/11.
Sep 08, 2021•4 min
Linsay Bodenheimer: The Cabin at Echo Summit
When Linsay Bodenheimer's 100-year-old family cabin was destroyed by the Caldor fire, much more than a building was lost.
Sep 07, 2021•4 min
Richard Friedlander: Are We All In This Together?
Richard Friedlander wonders why, if we're all in this together, we don't act that way.
Sep 03, 2021•4 min
Griffin Ting: End of the School Daze
Griffin Ting is back to school, glad the isolation of last year's virtual classrooms is over.
Sep 02, 2021•4 min
Susan Dix Lyons: I’m Here
Parents provide tremendous gifts to their children throughout life. But when dementia has taken hold the greatest gift can be a simple one – recognition. Susan Dix Lyons has this Perspective.
Sep 01, 2021•4 min
Isabella Montano Ponce: Latino Teens and Mental Health
Isabella Montano Ponce struggled with depression but it was the inability to talk about it that slowed her recovery.
Aug 27, 2021•4 min
Peggy Hansen: Set Points
Peggy Hansen looks at what happens when old truths about ourselves aren't true anymore.
Aug 26, 2021•4 min
Grant Young: UFOs Are Back. Sort Of.
Grant Young says recent government imagery of strange moving objects has rekindled the interest in UFOs.
Aug 25, 2021•4 min
Joan Cardellino: Living Alone
Joan Cardellino finds herself alone in her home for the first time and on the cusp of a new life.
Aug 24, 2021•4 min
Tom Moriarty: Chipped
Tom Moriarty finds one vaccine conspiracy theory to be as ironic as it is far-fetched.
Aug 23, 2021•4 min
Alisa Peres: Together, We Persist
Teacher Alisa Peres says she gets through the stress of teaching in a pandemic with a lot of help from her colleagues.
Aug 20, 2021•4 min
Ivelisse Diaz: Who Fixes Broken Institutions?
YR Media's Ivelisse Diaz feels pressure to sacrifice her own interests to help fix a broken school culture.
Aug 19, 2021•4 min
Leslie Smith: Closing Time at the Animal Shelter
As the pandemic's surge in animal adoptions slackens, volunteer Leslie Smith advocates for those left behind.
Aug 18, 2021•4 min
Jonah Raskin: The Great Highway
Jonah Raskin joins a large crowd advocating continued closure of the Great Highway to motor vehicles.
Aug 17, 2021•4 min
Mental Health Test
Sara Alexander's elderly friend is not one to censor her answers to questions -- even on a mental health test
Aug 16, 2021•4 min
Richard Swerdlow: Friday the 13th
Richard Swerdlow says today is not a day the superstitions take lightly.
Aug 13, 2021•4 min
Michael Ellis: Antlions
Michael Ellis says a member of what's known as the Little Five is a clever but vicious insect.
Aug 12, 2021•4 min
Andrew Lewis: Town Meeting
At an old-fashioned Vermont town meeting, Andrew Lewis experiences the kind of politics where winning and losing isn’t the only thing that matters.
Aug 11, 2021•4 min
Sandhya Acharya: The Note
When Sandhya Acharya's pandemic bubble burst, it was her young son's note that healed her.
Aug 10, 2021•4 min
Paul Wolber: And You Will Be Grateful
When Paul Wolber thinks of vaccine hesitancy, he hears the voice of his mother, long ago, giving some instructions many would do well to heed today. I like to tell people younger than me that I’m old enough that I survived all those diseases no one catches anymore. That’s an exaggeration. I did get measles, mumps, chicken pox, scarlet fever and so many ear infections that I was deaf for a year. However, I never caught the scourge of my cohort: polio. But it was a close thing. For the first few y...
Aug 09, 2021•4 min
Les Bloch: Imagine
Les Bloch says a better future can only be built if it can be imagined. Imagine. Just imagine. It’s something that envelopes and rewards us, something that has gotten us humans to the moon, something that stretches our brains like hamstrings in yoga class. It started with language 40,000 years ago. Before the written word, Homo sapiens carved statues from mammoth tusks and told stories of the hunt. Imagined details and embellishments were added to paint a more vivid picture in the mind’s eye. Ou...
Aug 05, 2021•4 min
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau: Failed Cat Foster
Fostering an animal awaiting adoption is a great service but Colleen Patrick-Goudreau learned its not without its challenges. Several years ago, I was volunteering at an underfunded county animal shelter socializing cats, cleaning their cages, and providing some enrichment to their little lives. Adoption days were few and far between, and one day I impulsively decided to bring a cat home to give her some reprieve from the cage. That’s when I became a foster failure — not because I adopted her, b...
Aug 04, 2021•4 min
Tracy Cote: Discussing Politics in the Workplace
Tracy Cote outlines the right way to discuss politics in the workplace.
Aug 03, 2021•4 min
Larry Murphy: Back Where We Began
Larry Murphy cherishes fishing trips in the back country as reminders of the common origin of all things.
Aug 02, 2021•4 min
Jim McClellan: Willie’s Bold Stroke
Sometimes, no one finds fault with choosing the easier road to success. But for Jim McClellan’s summer camp director that wasn’t going to happen. They say fortune favors the brave. I think there’s some truth to that, as I was reminded in a recent discussion about childhood memories. I spent a few summers at a great camp for boys in the Adirondack Mountains in New York. Willie, the camp’s director, was a larger‐than‐life figure. Like his love for the camp, Willie’s energy was boundless, and he ma...
Jul 30, 2021•4 min
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