Monthly Archives: August 2008
Let your phreak phlag phly
No, contrary to what you might have deduced from the title of this wee ditty, this is not about Phish, or Grateful Dead, or people who make their own clothes and have hair down to their b-holes. This blog is … Continue reading
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Burritoburgh, aka Burlington
Forgive me if this blog post is a bit, well, uninspired. There is a below average band playing just under my office window in the Red Square alley (um, who thought that would be a good idea? Let’s play loud … Continue reading
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Bleeding for the Free Press
There are some awesome parts of newspapering. Like constantly worrying whether your industry is going to go up in flames and whether you’ll have to go become a corporate PR flack to pay the bills. No offense to corporate PR … Continue reading
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Whoo-Whoo, Choo-Choo
Friday night was awesome. Well, I mean the part before I sat in my dark apartment alone and cried for hours. Friday night was the night I got to totally indulge my inner geek (my outer geek is indulged on … Continue reading
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Dirty diapers and dining room tables
As we well know from my inaugural and highly celebrated Free Press blog post, I am a baby magnet. I love babies. I don’t know what it is about them that makes me love them so. Maybe it’s the endless … Continue reading
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Bicycle-riding with cool people
My day began abruptly this morning at 6:30 a.m. when my cell phone alarm peeled my eyelids open a full hour earlier than I normally wake up. Trust me when I say, I need all the beauty ZZZs I can … Continue reading
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Burlington, land of missing shoes
I can honestly say that in my whole life I have never lost one shoe. A pair of shoes, certainly. I once left my favorite sneakers in a flat in London and wimpered about it the entire flight home. But … Continue reading
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File under “Only in Burlington”
I recently returned from a jaunt to the lake to report on the Way To Go Challenge awards that recognizes businesses who participate in an alternative transportation sort of commuting contest thing. I rode my bike down there, I’ll have … Continue reading
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Me, the child magnet
For today’s Free Press, I wrote an article about a new program run by the Association of Africans Living in Vermont called New Farms for New Americans. I did the reporting for the story last week on a crystal clear … Continue reading
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