Archive
Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.
Vermont Business Future
The ideas that business is intrinsically good or bad or can flourish only in a wholly unregulated environment are equally simplistic and dangerous. Business is no different from any other...
Mud Season Slalom
The annual back road slalom has begun – where even the most abstemious seem to be driving under the influence of excessive drink. Some experienced drivers appear like recent arrivals...
Lunch in Williston and Pienza
I’m at my desk in Williston. I pry open the warped plastic bowl containing my tuna salad and a few soggy rye crisps, take out my plastic fork and with...
Key Note: Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility
A month ago, I was standing in the Sala della Pace in the Palazzo Publico in Siena, Italy, looking up at a fresco by Ambrogio Lorenzetti depicting the virtues of...
Health Care
Sometime in the next decade the US will follow the rest of the civilized world and have some form of national health care system. The lead up however, will be...
Candidate Debates
I watched one democratic candidate debate. I was impressed with the production values, the awesome lighting, the game show sets and the technological wizardry. Ultimately my wife and I got...
Health Care
Sometime in the next decade the US will follow the rest of the civilized world and have some form of national health care system. The lead up however, will be...
Untitled
You are taking short, asphyxiating breaths. There is no air in you. I talk softly to you, aspirate you. Your lungs are full of what you have not said. You...
The Wood Duck
A wood duck trapped in the icing pond waits. It’s heart, a subtle engine, diesels in the lead December wind. There is no struggle, no shift in death. The spirit...
Leyte Gulf 1944
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...
Toys
When I was first married 40 some years ago, there was little spare money for Christmas toys. We relied on well heeled relatives to fill the empty white area under...
Anne’s Biddies
It’s the second Sunday of Advent and Anne Stone braces for Christmas. Anne has been a nurse at Copley Hospital for 48 of her 69 years. As a young woman,...
