Archive
Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.
Geoffrey’s Date
The third time I saw her walking her golden in the park, I got up the courage to say hello and, using her dog as a pretext, I asked, “Nice...
Comments to Snelling Leadership Students at Graduation 082720
Tenets of Leadership: A Unity of Opposites (applies to all three sectors: gov., bus., & nonprofit) Humility (arrogance is toxic) and Courage Seek and defend truth (no alternative facts, only...
News from Magic Hill – June
Stories and News From Magic HillJune 2019 Summer…not. Unlike the busy wild animals we share our few acres with, I’m not adjusting well to the persistence of winter: June 4th...
What has happened to Vermont?
What are the cohesive elements in Vermont’s 247 towns and cities? What sustains their human connection, commerce, and community? Though born in New York City, I grew up in Morrisville...
Why I wrote “I am Baybie”
In 1976, I met a blind New York City street singer named Reverend Baybie Hoover whose early life was marked by a succession of tragedies. She was blinded at...
Beefers
“My girls… I dunno their names anymore. They’se like soft machines now. Livin’ in a free-stall barn, never seein’ my old overgrown pastures, eatin’ stuff delivered to my silos every...
Palliative Care
Palliative Care I loved Ronnie once and still do but it’s hardly about love, is it? It’s about redemption… mine, not his. He’s past redemption and he’ll be dead soon...
Up in smoke… “The American Dream”
The Pied Piper of Washington Growing up in Morrisville in the ‘50s, there was a general belief that hard work and integrity were a path to financial security and maybe...
A Conspiracy Theory? You decide.
O wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in 't. — Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene I A new book...