A Vermont humor writer explores the funny side of home, family, and life in the country.
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The following essays first appeared in “Around the Bend,” my long-running biweekly humor column in the Addison Independent in Vermont. If they make you laugh, share them with your friends. If they don’t, share them with your enemies.
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Road trip breaks stay-at-home streak
“I call myself a ‘homebody’ so it sounds folksy instead of pathological.”
At last, an empty nest
“I watched my parents from my dorm room window as they returned to the car. Oddly, it looked like they were skipping.”
The summer fun I didn’t know I needed
“The game seemed to be based on the same principles as hide-and-seek, with the added risk of breaking your neck colliding with objects you can’t see in the dark.”
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Finding the fun in fishing
“I never ‘went fishing’ in the traditional sense. I did, however, see Jaws, and I read some Hemingway in high school. (Reading Hemingway is also how I trained as a bullfighter.)”
Fix a treadmill, strengthen a marriage
“We get along, just not when it comes to putting things together. We’ve had so many assembly-related conflicts over the years that the mere sight of a parts list makes my jaw clench.”