Tag: John Burdick Village Voices

I don’t require a break from the daily writing interval itself. Flexing sentences each day keeps them plastic. Feeling out ...

In everything I do I am improviser per force and not by choice. Plans and designs do not take well ...

Ringo once said that they pitied their friend Elvis, for he endured the disfigurations of extreme fame alone. They had ...

A self-described quarantine honor student who practiced Covid precaution book and letter for four months, withdrawing hermetically and seeing no ...

It’s the amount of responsibility, making sure 24 kids are in your sight range and learning something all day long. ...

Sports fandom is and has always been a lesson in elective and inconsequent suffering.  I rue that the fans of ...

My mother believed in appearances and respectability, neither of which are cheap. Her degree from Stephens College was in fashion, ...

On an aesthetically perfect August Saturday night at 7 p.m., the streets of the village of New Paltz were slammed, ...

Questions about where New York City goes from here are pressing but unanswerable. If the city loses its exceptionalism and ...

Maybe we have to go into a form of lockdown protocol every 80 days or so, or as indicated by ...

I have made progress with sleep lately with some inverted Poseidon Adventure meditative praxis. I go up to go down. ...

The experience of oceanic blackjack that night hit my brain rather like cocaine might have, I imagine, if I had ...

I did not really know California’s Matt Coleman, the one described by Mendocino Land Trust board president Winston Bowen as ...

Any objective consideration of Rhett’s recent work, in his years leading up to a certain age we don’t discuss, reveals ...

Other than for throwing a little baggie of penny candy in every shipped box, Sweetwater is known, lightly mocked, and ...

No competency and achievement is safe from self-doubt. No proof is enough. That suspicion is a symptom of imposter syndrome, ...

The age we are living in is starting to feel like an omni-trigger, a cosmic strategy to tease it all ...

I have no idea what’s behind the outages. Downed tree, Liz thinks, but well into the calm after what wasn’t ...

For many in New York, Irene and Sandy were startling awakenings to the fact that, yes, we get real weather ...

The superintendent of a tiny, predominantly Mexican Arizona school district struggles out loud over an agonizing decision he has to ...