Stratton Magazine – Southern Vermont's Journal of Living

Stratton Magazine – Southern Vermont's Journal of Living

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May Short Stories fill Your Month »

While May is half over, there is still time to enjoy Short Story Month. Two amazing young adult collections (that cross over very nicely into the adult realm) are Twisted Fairy Tales by Maura McHugh (illustrated by Jane Laurie) and Under My Hat edited by Jonathan Strahan. Twisted Fairy Tales include 20 sinister fairy tales …

Claro Walnut Sideboard »

We’re working on a fun one.  We have accumulated a small pile of cutoffs from the 15 or twenty claro walnut tables we’ve made in the past couple of years and now we’ve got a use for them.  This client bought our table back in February and it is being used as a desk in …

Gulp by Mary Roach »

Mary Roach’s books have been on my to-read list for a long time. However, when your job depends on knowing what’s new and great, reading an author’s backlist can be difficult to find time for.  Naturally, when Roach’s newest book came out, I jumped at the chance to finally make time for this intriguing writer. …

Swimming with the Fishes »

If you took Hilari Bell, Pittacus Lore, Jessica Khoury and a bit of Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi, this would be the result! The Neptune Project by Polly Holyoke is a first novel, but will not be her last. Nere has always felt like she does not belong, a real “fish out of water.” But …

Main Street Vegan by Victoria Moran »

I saw Victoria Moran speak at Farm Sanctuary’s Annual Thanksgiving celebration for the Turkeys last year. As I enjoyed my tasty vegan Thanksgiving dinner, she talked about her years of vegan experience and of helping others go vegan.  She is an amazing and positive person that one can’t help but immediately take a liking to …

Enchanting World – Wonder Light by R.R. Russell »

I recently found a first time novelist that is a little different from my usual reads. Her name is R. R. Russell. I have had the pleasure of emailing her a few times and while talking about her novel, Wonder Light: Unicorns of the Mist, I have gotten to know a very interesting person; a …

Winds of Change – The Son by Phillip Meyer »

“Follow your footsteps long enough and they will turn into those of the beast.” — Philipp Meyer, The Son I’m sure adjectives like Epic, Sprawling, Brawling, Lusty, Bloody, and, yes, even Romantic will be piled upon Philipp Meyer’s new novel, The Son, when it is published by Harper/Collins in June. Unlike a lot of hype, …

Design is A Process »

Well, after about 35 years of this kind of work, I have come to really appreciate the process of design, as much as the event of making stuff, which also is a process, and not a list of a linear progression of steps.  We do something, analyze it, do something different, analyze that, and step …

George Jones – The Grand Tour Comes to an End »

“If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.” — Waylon Jennings Taking a look at George Jones’s life, it is a wonder that he lived to be 81-years-old. His name became synonymous with hard living self-destruction and he seemed to regard the comparison as a compliment, as if …

May the Fourth Be With You »

After reading this blogs title you might be asking yourself, “Did I read that right?”  Yes, you did. This Saturday, May 4, has been designated Star Wars Day. So on this day all of us fan boys (and girls) can let our Millennium Falcon Flag Fly proudly! And we can do that with some of these …

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