Category: Writing

June 7, 2012

Covering the entire Midwest and Northeast, the early February storm had the weather channel prophets airing doomsday predictions with headlines like ­“Colossal Winter Storm Takes Aim.” In fairness, schools in D.C. did shut down for almost a week. But for Andy Hodgdon and his intrepid Norwich highway crew, it simply meant more business as usual.…

June 5, 2012

No, that’s not the recipe for a Dartmouth College fraternity party, it’s auction time at Smith’s Auction Gallery in Plainfield, NH, an old school New England auction house where computer bidding is unheard of, but where a brisk business is being done in donuts and coffee as hundreds of potential buyers cram into the gallery…

February 1, 2005

Sears National Customer Relations 3333 Beverly Road Hoffman Estates, IL 60179 Norwich, VT, February 1, 2005 Dear Sears, Recently, our Kenmore fridge/freezer gave up on us; at six years of age, this was a little ahead of time, but so be it. The $220 service agreement that you sold us when I called repairs offered…

April 5, 1996

I meet Vuc over lunch. He is picking his meal out of a dumpster on an alley in central Belgrade. Like half a million other Serbs in former Yugoslavia he has come here on the run from the ethnic cleansing that has taken place in Croatia and Bosnia  during the past five years. They’re an…