Jessie Raymond writes Around the Bend, a humor column that has run bi-weekly in the Addison Independent since 2002. She is the 2004 and 2009 first-place winner of the New England Newspaper and Press Association's Better Newspaper Award for Best Humor Column (Class II weeklies).
She lives in Middlebury, Vt., and blogs about her hobbies, distractions, and farm life at What Housework?
