Liz Vago

Cognoscenti contributor

Liz Vago is a writer and nonprofit executive recruiter. She is a passionate advocate for the environment and our shared humanity. She divides her time between Massachusetts and Vermont with her husband Tim and three cats.

Recently published

The author and her mother in 1990.(Courtesy Liz Vago)

At the end of my mother's life, I could finally see her

Liz Vago’s relationship with her mother was flipped. For decades, I was the responsible one and she was the impulsive one, Vago writes. I didn’t appreciate her outsized joy for...

Cognoscenti

Mar 1, 2024

There is life unseen in the winter, writes Liz Vago. In the woods and the woodpile, in the soft dirt where toads burrow down to hibernate — animals survive by going deep. (Getty Images)

I hated winter, until I learned its secrets

I hated the inky afternoons, the drive home from work in the dark, writes Liz Vago. Is there life in the darker months?

Cognoscenti

Feb 15, 2023