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Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.
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...
Vermont’s Sacred Cow: Regenerative small farms or toxic mega-dairies?
Dairy cows have been the icon of Vermont’s pastoral countryside for 150 years, but today’s mega-dairies don’t reflect the tradition of small dairy farms that once dotted our pastoral landscape....
Democrats: A Roadmap to leadership…
Stop dithering, we can’t be all things to all people; if we try, we become nothing to anybody. If our party is to mean something to the people we want...
Beauty, Eroticism and Porn
Michelangelo's David courtesy of BBC Media When I was young and in search of the facts of life, there was no evident pornography. The closest we ever got was a book...
UVM Health Network Hospitals… a coup d’état or a coup de grace?
Courtesy UVM Medical Center Hospital During the week of June 9th, Dr. Sunny Eappen consolidated all leadership power among the UVM Health Network’s (UVMHN) owned hospitals under his direct control,...
Time to stand up for democratic principles….
Image courtesy of Facebook New York City, the largest city in the United States, with a population of 8.4M people or 2.5% of the country, just chose a young progressive...
I am not with you now
I guess what I would say to you is this... If you lie down beneath a tree and touch yourself, I still won't be there, nor will love. The tree...
Childrens’ Songs
Whose children are these... These timorous anticipants of pain, Swaddled young in circumjacent rolls of fat Waddling sullen through our lives? What have we done to them That they must...
Leyte Gulf
On a coral reef you lay to die and breathless lay there eye to eye With rippling morays where they hide in turbid currents deep inside of Leyte Gulf. Did...
