by Wyatt Moyer | Nov 5, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
You could never accuse me of having a particularly gloomy disposition. As the results from a personality test once noted, I refuse to worry. However, my outright refusal to worry has recently become weaker, especially as the 2024 presidential election between Kamala...
by Wyatt Moyer | Sep 16, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
In his December 2017 Ted Talk, Dr. Mikhail Varshavski, known by his nearly 13 million YouTube subscribers as “Dr. Mike,” warned of a so-called “I Know All” (IKA) expert in the doctor’s office. Dr. Mike said this expert is someone who enters the doctor’s office...
by Wyatt Moyer | May 7, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
It is downright lazy to say that calling for the end of the senseless killing of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip is “anti-semitic.” For it to be considered anti-semitic, the killings would have to be only of those in Hamas who, according to an April 30th NPR...
by Wyatt Moyer | Apr 23, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Anyone who knows me knows that I am generally “progressive” politically. I don’t particularly appreciate the two presumptive major-party nominees for president in 2024, nor do I like Robert Kennedy, Jr. I live in Vermont, the state that continually elects “Democratic...
by Wyatt Moyer | Mar 5, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
A friend told me maple sugaring in Vermont is a way of life. He said this as we were installing new sap runs and tapping a new section of his 150+ acre sugarbush. I have to agree with him. Chris Bohjalian, author and fellow small-towner, has written that steam from a...