Archive
Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.
Geezer and Golden Gals in Hinesburg
The ‘Triple G’ group, more sedately called by the Carpenter-Carse Library staff “Senior Meet-up,” gets together every Monday from 1 PM to 2:30 PM in the community room of the...
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...
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...
Personal Responsibility
In healthcare, we do know a few things. We know for example that very few will ever be able to afford on their own all the healthcare they will need...
Leadership
Commentator Bill Schubart has been thinking a lot about leadership lately, what constitutes it and where it went? I am thinking a lot about conflict and leadership these days …what...
A Man of Girth
I am a man of girth, overweight, fat….there I said it. But what does it mean? Physiologically it means simply that I consume more calories than I burn, nothing more,...
The Consuming Society
We are often called the “consumer society.” The term has mixed meaning. All societies are in fact consumer societies. An Afghan tribal village consumes, as do people in Williston. The...
Laying Off Human Beings
A friend was just laid off… badly I must add. It’s not that her employer did not have to lay her off. That was not the question. The “badly” part...
The New Economy of Local News
When I was very young, we read about national and international events weeks after they occurred. Signal events in the Korean War, advances in nuclear science, or the discovery of...
Tardiness?
My father taught me to be on time. Being late was considered arrogant and implied that my time was somehow worth more than other people’s. On my grade school report...
Our National Weight
I’ve wrestled with my weight since I was ten years old. The range of that struggle has been substantial. I once lost 200 pounds only to have some of it...
Did He Pass or Did He Die?
The father of a dear friend died last month. In relaying the news to me, he said his father had “passed.” My mind immediately sought a grammatical object, knowing full...
