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The Kilted Groom It’s called the sgian dhub. That’s the knife you stick in your sock. Of the wedding photos, that’s the one that makes young boys, otherwise bored with the whole ordeal, stop and stare. Yeah, yeah, yea...

Twenty-two years ago, my wife and I got married at Trinity UMC in Springfield, Mass. And I wore my great-grandfather’s kilt. #Varticles valleyadvocate.com/2008/07/22/t...

Green River Love Song – Plum

My poem, "Green River Love Song," in Plum, the literary magazine at Greenfield Community College. #Varticles www.gcc.mass.edu/plum/green-r...

#Varticles I told this story about 5 years ago, in late May or early June. It was a messy story, and maybe I didn’t have a chance, but I hear now the quavering vulnerability in my voice and I still think I was saying something real. youtu.be/WXvrcSfYWhw?...

Be My Sherpa by Andrew Varnon (As Read by the Kook) Listen to Be My Sherpa by Andrew Varnon (As Read by the Kook) by Soul Kebab #np on #SoundCloud

#Varticles This is my poem, "Be My Sherpa," as read by a Fillipino woman who identifies herself as "the Kook." It is quite flattering (and weird) that my poem has found its way around the Internet, to bounce back at me from strange angles. #Poetry soundcloud.com/soul-kebab/b...

The River Rat: Six Miles of Mayhem on the Millers River Take around 300 canoes. Line them up in front of a bridge on a river in a run-down factory town in a forgotten corner of Massachusetts. Do it in April, when the river is cold and fast. Plunk into t…

“Six Miles of Mayhem on the Millers River”: my story about paddling the River Rat. #Varticles sportswritingwneu.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/t...

Who's Awkward And Unsophisticated Now? Maybe I’m just a rube.I don’t take issue with The Boston Globe for pointing a finger at the Massachusetts gaming commissioners and telling them where the…

Similar in thought: my radio commentary on the word "Rube." #varticles www.nepm.org/commentaries...

Ode to Fred Oakes, Poet & Neighbor ( First published in the Greenfield Recorder, June 8, 2019 )   When Fred Oakes moved to Madison Circle in 1963, it was still nine ye...

In my own way, I have been writing about #GreenfieldMA and what I like about this place for a long time. This one is about my late neighbor, who I helped lift up after he fell one day, and what it says about our community. @strongtowns.org #varticles andrewvarnon.blogspot.com/2019/06/ode-...

Clay Court Connoisseur (Originally published in The Recorder on , May 23, 2014 ) It’s spring. The tulips are in bloom, asparagus is back at the farmers’ ...

Hey, @strongtowns.org and @joinordiefilm.bsky.social: One of the things #GreenfieldMA has going for it is its 9 natural red clay tennis courts. Why? Because amateurs pitched in and saved something good about the place where they lived. #varticles andrewvarnon.blogspot.com/2016/05/clay...

The Kilted Groom It’s called the sgian dhub. That’s the knife you stick in your sock. Of the wedding photos, that’s the one that makes young boys, otherwise bored with the whole ordeal, stop and stare. Yeah, yeah, yea...

"It's called the sgian dhub. That's the knife you stick in your sock." From my 2008 article about getting married in a kilt for "I Do" the wedding supplement of the Valley Advocate. #WesternMA #kilts #Varticles valleyadvocate.com/2008/07/22/t...

Muck Rack | For journalists and public relations Articles by Andrew Varnon on Muck Rack. Find Andrew Varnon's email address, contact information, LinkedIn, Twitter, other social media and more.

Muck Rack has a small collection of my #Varticles. muckrack.com/andrew-varno...

Ode to Fred Oakes, Poet & Neighbor ( First published in the Greenfield Recorder, June 8, 2019 )   When Fred Oakes moved to Madison Circle in 1963, it was still nine ye...

I noticed that the @greenfieldrecorder.bsky.social doesn't have a full archive anymore. I've written a series of My Turn articles for them over the years. Here's another one, about a late neighbor of mine. #Varticles andrewvarnon.blogspot.com/2019/06/ode-...

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“We live in such a place” column

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What Baseball's Black Sox Scandal Has To Teach Us 100 Years Later This fall marks the 100th anniversary of the infamous Black Sox scandal, where eight players from the Chicago White Sox conspired with gamblers to…

Thinking about going to Chicago in a couple of weeks. Thinking about the Black Sox. #Varticles #BeerBaseballAndTheBible www.nepm.org/commentaries...

The Blossom in my Hand That's me, crouching by a stone on a grassy lawn, with my daughter Aisla leaning against my chest. It is a photograph taken this spring, and...

#Varticles: “So the photo shows a father, having taken his family on a 2.4 mi. walk following the path of an intellectual poet … crouching and sharing with his daughter a little pink symbol of spring, the crabapple blossom.”🌸 andrewvarnon.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-...

An Air American Girl Meet the Air America Radio personality that has Rush Limbaugh asking, 'Has anyone heard of Rachel Maddow?'

#Varticles: That time I took the train to NYC to see @maddow.msnbc.com make an episode of her radio show. “An Air American Girl” www.alternet.org/2005/06/an_a...

What's Taken Greenfield, Mass., So Long To Stop Calling Itself A Town? In official state documents, we used to be referred to as “The City known as the Town of Greenfield.” Kind of embarrassing.The pragmatists on the council…

#Varticles on Greenfield becoming a city, no longer a town. www.nepm.org/commentaries...

The River Rat: Six Miles of Mayhem on the Millers River Take around 300 canoes. Line them up in front of a bridge on a river in a run-down factory town in a forgotten corner of Massachusetts. Do it in April, when the river is cold and fast. Plunk into t…

#Varticles: “Six miles of mayhem on the Millers River,” a first person report on paddling the River Rat canoe race from Athol to Orange, written while I was teaching a sportswriting class at WNEU. sportswritingwneu.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/t...

Take the Low Road (Sermon delivered at Trinity Church UMC, Springfield MA, on 3/22 in Grace Chapel as part of the Lenten Luncheon series.) I’ve always thou...

#Varticles “Take the Low Road” (sermon) given at Trinity UMC in Springfield MA on 3/23/2019. andrewvarnon.blogspot.com/2019/03/take...

The Crossing Over The U.S. poet laureate on the aesthetic of the simple poem

#Varticles: this is an interview with then-poet laureate Ted Kooser that I did in a hotel cafe in Pittsburgh almost 20 years ago. www.guernicamag.com/the_crossing...

#Varticles: My poem “Be My Sherpa” originally appeared in the American Poetry Review in 2002. It has had a weird extended internet life, in part due to Rob Brezsny’s “Free Will Astronomy” column. So it continues to pop up from time to time. massculturalcouncil.org/media/04_POE...

The Other Side of the Net “Hey,” I say, and pause for a moment, slinging my tennis bag over my shoulder and closing the car door. I start down the grassy slope toward the tennis cour

#Varticles: This one’s about #tennis and #DavidFosterWallace: “The Other Side of the Net” www.thesmartset.com/the-other-si...

Some of my #Varticles — although not many — are videos, like this story I told for the Valley Voices story slam: “Poetry Calling.” youtu.be/xxYb31z_MA8?...

I used to live (briefly) with a guy who called them #Varticles. So I’m going to post some links to my writing using that hashtag.