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Mmmm, the Littleton Diner. We had some really neat hash browns there a couple of months ago. During a school in-service day, my son and I made the 2.5-hour trip to see the world's longest candy counter at Chutters. Leaving with that much candy in brown paper bags, I was obligated (as a mother) to feed him a meal first. He loved the cheeseburger soup and ended up doing the Ammonoosuc Times crossword on the way home.

Our town's walkscore was a paltry 3/100, but we're on an island, so everything is far away. I also noticed that our amenities are so small (many run out of homes), that only larger businesses several miles away show up in their list. We do have a general store, a hairdresser, a pizzeria, an internet cafe, etc. They're just seasonal and small. The bigger walkability problem is the weather -- at frequent sub-zero temperatures, no one's walking anywhere.

Raising a bowl of oatmeal for your speedy return home!

Jack Spratt has grown up knowing only the hallways of M.G. Laboratories as his home. Discovered at birth to have a metabolic disorder which prevented him from digesting lipids, infant Jack was sent to M.G. Labs for genetic rehabilitation. Over the course of twenty years, not only have the M.G. Labs geneticists not found a cure for Jack's problem, they are responsible for the accidental release of a genovirus which has made billions of humans unable to eat anything except grease, suet and lard.

As the entire world succumbs to morbid obesity, M.G. Labs scientists are poised to sacrifice Jack's life in order to find a cure for Earth's population. It is during Jack's harrowing escape that he meets Jane -- a grease-eating sufferer who may hold the key to the planet's metabolic demise. Together, Jack and Jane will discover the true nature of their yin-yang relationship and attempt save the world.

In our town -- same latitude as Colebrook, three hours due west -- mothers pick up their kids at the bus stop on snowmobiles. It's those mile-long rural driveways that no one wants to walk in the wind chill.

We don't have a snowmobile yet, so I waited at the bus stop with the tractor mower. Apparently, any small motorized vehicle will do when it comes to fourth-grade coolness, whether it's in season or not.

The Lake Champlain islands are a great leaf-peeping tour; in many spots you can see the Adirondacks across the lake in New York. From I-89, go through Milton toward the islands on Rt 2. Cross the sandbar and into South Hero, where there's apple picking at the Allenholm Farm for this season's pies.

Head north through Grand Isle and North Hero. Hero's Welcome general store makes excellent sandwiches on homemade rolls... and sells hemostats if you find yourself with a bleeder.

Keep going through the peninsula of Alburgh and make a left at God's Little Brown Church. Isle La Motte, the final island, is the end of the line, but the 480 million-year-old fossils on the Goodsell Ridge portion of the Chazy Reef are incredible. Bundle up and walk the ridge trails to see and touch the fossils, as well as view tree damage from the Ice Storm of '98.

I was always under the impression that authors were given a lot of artistic license in their own memoirs. You were given the benefit of the doubt, as long as you didn't say something like, "I was married to Grace Kelly and played bass for Sleater-Kinney."

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