10 luft balloons

This happened back in December but in case anyone missed this (like I did) here’s an interesting story. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) issued an open challenge: on December 5, 2009 at 10am ET they would raise one red weather balloon eight feet in diameter (see right)  in 10 random locations in [...]

R.I.P. Lhasa

Two years ago I saw Lhasa de Sela perform two songs with some friends of mine at a birthday party on a Sunday night. I was blown away. Blown. Away. I proclaimed, ‘That’s the best singer I’ve ever seen’.  I had heard this from other friends who loved her. I was mad at myself that [...]

New Years is a time to forget about the present

While the RadarLake writers are getting their lives back in order after an overly festive holiday season, here’s something I wrote for the Brome County News last year. New Years is a very peculiar time of the year. We could easily just ignore it the way we ignore the changing of the months but then [...]