HERE IT IS!! My first “Faith in Vermont” blog column in The Addison Independent. Click on the link below to read it. Click even if you DON’T want to read it!

“Vermont?!?  Wow, I’m not sure I could handle those New England winters again. Especially with kids.”

It was January 2011. My husband, Erick, and I were standing in the kitchen of our little rented bungalow in Berkeley, California, discussing his job prospects. Our two daughters, aged 3 and 1, were asleep in the bedroom next door, and I was eight months pregnant with daughter number three. Erick had just told me that Middlebury College, a small liberal arts school of about 2,000 students in central Vermont, was flying him out to interview for a position as assistant professor of economics.

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