Walt Amses: Spring memory

Editor’s note: Walt Amses is a writer and former educator who lives in Calais.
Were the vernal equinox afflicted with a human frailty it would likely be multiple personality disorder, particularly in central Vermont where spring is inhabited by psychotic swings of personality — a series of ripping nor’easters or summerlike warmth and sunshine, depending on the year, and often enough, depending on the week. Our oxymoronic fall back position goes something like “expect the