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At the age of 50, Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg was diagnosed with the neurological disorder known as Asperger's Syndrome, a type of autism.
She experienced profound relief and joy, as well as grief, over the knowledge of what had caused her constant social and emotional struggles throughout her entire life.
People who live on the autism spectrum find they have great difficulty with social interaction and communication and a tendency for repetitive behavior, among a constellation of other symptoms.
In the case of Cohen-Rottenberg, the diagnosis of Asperger's - a milder form of the disorder - explained a lot about her life, and the knowledge gave her the context to adapt the way she lives and works.
If your knowledge of puppetry goes as far as Kukla, Fran and Ollie, the Muppets and Lamb Chop, prepare to have your mind blown. Puppets in the Green Mountains, a biennial 11-day festival, continues through Sept. 26. Eric Bass, who founded Sandglass Theater with his wife Ines in 1982,
With the ninth edition of the Brattleboro Literary Festival still several weeks away, organizers Ruth Allard, Sandy Rouse and Wyn Cooper discussed this year's offerings. “The excitement is palpable at events and on the street, and authors are appreciative about their experience here,” Allard said. Special guests will include...
Vincent Panella says he is “lucky enough to have a foot in two worlds” as a writer. His grandfather came over from Sicily in the 1900s, and Panella grew up in Queens in New York. He was an avid reader. “A lot of books inspired my writing,” Panella says. “I read a lot of pulp fiction and Westerns. I first started writing when I was 19, an engineering student in college, and I found I didn't like [engineering.] I wrote...
Keeping up a blog, or even a private diary, is not always an easy task. Some people feel they have nothing worth writing about, others can't commit to a daily routine of writing. Suzanne Kingsbury, local author and founder of the writing workshop “Where the Wild Things Are,” does not have either of these difficulties with her own blog at suzannekingsbury.net. Neither did her maternal grandmother, Maggie, who lived a glamorous and extremely social life in Manhattan in the 1930s.
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Jessie Haas has been writing books about horses for many years, and has recently published a nonfiction reference book called - appropriately enough - Horse Crazy! She claims that her love for equines has been with her since birth. “I was born horse crazy. I get it from both sides of my family. We got a horse when I was six and have had horses on the farm ever since.” Haas has a horse of her own at her home...
Although they have never collaborated on a published work, Laura Stevenson and her husband F.D. Reeve are longtime writers who “read each others' manuscripts” and work separately on their respective projects. After writing several novels and short stories for children - she began writing stories for her own children when she first moved to Vermont - Stevenson has just published her first adult novel. In Return in Kind, Joel Hendrickson's wife, Letty, has just died. She leaves her legacy and...
