Mark Redmond had been trying – and failing – to get some sleep since ten-thirty at night. He was on the front lawn of the Unitarian Church at the north end of Burlington, Vermont’s Church Street, curled up in his sleeping bag against the March cold, a flattened cardboard carton between him and the snow. […]
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Here’s the scene: A conference room in what once was a private home in Burlington, Vermont. The year is 2003. A recently retired direct marketing advertising executive is on one side of the table, a 13-year-old boy on another. They’ve never met and it’s just the two of them. They have to sit there for […]
Among the papers and documents and newspapers that Mark Redmond wedges into his briefcase is a Christmas card he received a few years ago. While the papers come and go, that card remains. Redmond is the executive director of Spectrum Youth and Family Services. On the front of the card is a colorful, patchwork Santa […]
