A. J. Kohlhepp |

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Wednesday, 13 Feb 2019 - Over the months of T.’s presidency, I have noted an ever increasing dearth of joy. It has gotten harder and harder to find. I see the lack of it to be not unlike a snow fog that has taken up permanent residence.

Come to the table

Saturday, 9 Feb 2019 - Come to the table to know once again and again we are each other’s keepers.

Berkshire Snow Day

Thursday, 31 Jan 2019 - "I'm on my way to Price Chopper, can I pick up anything for you?"

Just another Day of Celebration: January 12, 2019

Saturday, 12 Jan 2019 - Five national celebrations on this one solitary winter’s day. Who knew?

Of planners and promises: A New Year’s Day dilemma

Tuesday, 1 Jan 2019 - To put it simply, many of us are so mired in the busy-ness of everyday life that we don’t, or can’t, look up long enough to assess what we do and when we do it and how effective we are in doing it in our daily lives.

How do you spell ‘compassion’?

Sunday, 23 Dec 2018 - I wish you a compassionate Hanukkah, Christmas, Diwali, Kwanzaa and Advent. I wish us all light.

POEM: The Backwards Geese (from the gate outside South Egremont School)

Friday, 23 Nov 2018 - as if time could run backwards at their beckoning; as if winter could recede from my fingers and the white gate swing wide, with the fall riot returning to the bracketing treelimbs, thence to turn verdant and alive, the schoolyard now summer-empty.

There’s a chill in the air

Monday, 1 Oct 2018 - There most certainly is a chill in the air. This chill is so pervasive and blowing from so many directions that our impulse is to bundle up, protect ourselves, cover our faces from this stinging wind.

A self-confessed line umpire

Tuesday, 14 Aug 2018 - Whatever empathy we express toward the man who has thirsted for 30,000 years is just a self-serving feint to sooth our ego.

Vira Vira Equinox

Wednesday, 25 Jul 2018 - Vira says: "Giving the farmers billions is like...."

The Emperor’s New Clothes — An adaptation

Wednesday, 18 Jul 2018 - Instead of saying, as one might, about any other ruler, "The King's in council," here they always said. "The President is tweeting in his dressing room.”

July 9th Somebody’s Birthday

Monday, 9 Jul 2018 - Maybe you have some wise words to weave into a toast that would make the rest of us feel celebratory or at least better about our world in general.

Vira Vira Equinox

Sunday, 1 Jul 2018 - Vira Vira poses the question of the day -- perhaps the era.

In My Back Yard

Friday, 15 Jun 2018 - In my backyard, undiscriminating addiction is gutting our children, neighbors, families.

Vira Vira Equinox

Saturday, 12 May 2018 - America doesn’t have a national dance. Perhaps it should be the limbo.

It’s Thursday morning

Thursday, 10 May 2018 - It’s Thursday morning and I could mow but I did that yesterday. Maybe I’ll write yet another note of fan mail to Allison Larkin.

It’s Saturday, April 14th

Saturday, 14 Apr 2018 - It’s Saturday April 14th and my three dogs could care less about the incessant political banter.

Vira Vira Equinox

Saturday, 10 Mar 2018 - Vira Vira revising her favorites, given recent revelations.

Cockroaches, Lent and felled innocence

Tuesday, 20 Feb 2018 - On an average, 96 people a day are killed by gunfire in the United States. Yesterday, 17 children were killed in Florida. That leaves 79 others whose names and faces we won’t be seeing online or in print, but they are still dead.