by Vincent Panella | Nov 22, 2018 | The First Glass
[Read part 1 below — Vermont Views Magazine does not take part in partisan stances in local or national politics, but it does, from time to time, observe the state of people who vote, their knowledge and acuity, if any.] A Beto volunteer calls. “Have you been...
by Vincent Panella | Nov 21, 2018 | The First Glass
What made me go to Texas? Last spring the news filtered in that a U.S. Rep from El Paso named Robert Francis O’Rourke, nicknamed Beto, (Bet-oh) was challenging Ted Cruz for a senate seat held by Republicans since the early nineties. Cruz was considered a lock...
by Vincent Panella | Oct 22, 2018 | The First Glass
She was sitting in front of the TV, remote in hand, water, books, and pills on the side table. She lowered the sound when he came in and sat, his back hurting from the day’s work. I don’t think I’ll be able to get up. You poor thing. Bent over a sink...
by Vincent Panella | Aug 22, 2018 | The First Glass
There’s a Hemingway story called Now I Lay Me in which he fears sleeping at night ever since he was struck by a mortar during World War I – ‘blown up’ as he puts it. To fall asleep in darkness would cause his soul “to fly out of his body,’ that is, he would...
by Vincent Panella | Jul 22, 2018 | The First Glass
Once long ago I needed a job. A friend had just quit as a reporter for a large Midwest newspaper and he suggested I take his place. I’d never worked as a news reporter, but I’d taken a J-School course and had recently written a piece about racing pigeons...
by Vincent Panella | May 23, 2018 | The First Glass
Twain didn’t like it when he had a situation but no story. Tell that to any writer. As a college student I worked summers in my father’s bar in upstate New York. Newburgh was a poor Hudson River town with such social ills that my father’s business would soon become a...
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