UVM senior treks back into her Armenian past
Just how small is this world really? Sarah Aghjayan, 21, has been going to the University of Vermont since the autumn of 2010...
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Driven to distraction? End now.
According to a July 2014 study by insure.com, a consumer insurance website, we Vermonters are not at our best when we are behind...
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The gifts of the autumnal equinox
Tomorrow night, around 10:29 p.m. in the Eastern Time zone, the autumnal equinox arrives. We all know what that means. Beginning this week,...
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The idiot box has gotten smart
I didn’t watch “Breaking Bad” when AMC was airing an episode a week between 2008 and 2013. Instead, my wife and I...
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Sometimes at 35,000 feet, it’s coffee, tea, or tears
Midway through the 2013 Ben Stiller remake of “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” Kristen Wiig walks across a Newfoundland dock singing the...
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Near a Turkish school, 10,000 dead Armenians are still ignored
The three-story Yenikoy elementary school rises from a plateau like a mesa in south-central Turkey. It is the only building for miles, its...
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A Friendship that Transcends Language
Zulkuf knows perhaps a dozen words in English, which is roughly 11 more words than I can speak in Kurdish. Sipas means thank...
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The big scary doll I pushed down the stairs
Recently I came across a photo of my mother introducing me to a doll about an inch or two taller than I am....
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A little August eggnog? Unlikely.
We are now beyond the halfway point of August and nearing the final third of the season we call summer. The sun sets...
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At Field Days, we’re all kids again
Later this week I will be facing one of my toughest decisions of the summer: Do I begin my visit to Addison County...
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