Archive
Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.
The Courage of the Nuns
Well, the bishops have their vestments in a twist again, as if they hadn’t created enough problems for themselves, swearing the victims of their colleagues’ sexual predations to secrecy. In...
A New Town Center for Vermont’s Small Towns
At least for the time being, we must all get smaller. By “smaller,” I mean our government, town, school, non-profit, business, and household budgets. Though we may feel like victims...
Ah, Mother
It’s time to think about Mother again. And then will come Father’s Day. For many of us, it’s bittersweet to revisit our mothers and fathers, either in person or in...
Seven Days VT – Fat Chance
In 1982, Bill Schubart was fast approaching 500 pounds. He knew that if he were bedridden — or worse — by his heft, he couldn’t run his new media manufacturing and distribution...
Talk to me…..
When I was a cub scout in Morrisville in 1953, one of my merit badge projects was to learn Morse code. Another was talking into orange juice cans connected by...
Stasis or Change?
Much of what I hear these days is, “I’m gonna vote for balance. If the legislature’s gonna be Democratic, I’ll vote for a Republican governor to keep them in check.”...
The Blame Game
There’s a lot to be saddened about in the BP disaster. The damage to the gulf and shoreline may take a generation to recover, the economic loss to the region,...
Short Story Collection: “Fat People”
Fat People: fiction about people who live to eat Fat People is an entirely unique fictional look at the emotions and experiences of those who live to eat: the estrangement, loneliness, embarrassment,...
Hunger
He’s thin now, down to seventeen pounds. In the prowess of his youth, he weighed almost twenty-four pounds, not big, but he was born small. He’s a decade old now...
The Battle of Mastodons
The battle in Washington is not over a balanced budget. It is not between the rich and the poor. It’s not between business and consumers. It’s not about the environment....
The Free Market: An Enduring Myth
My libertarian and conservative friends love to cite the purifying qualities of the free market, operating like a natural stream-bed filter, removing weak business models, compressing economic fluctuations, and obviating...
Citizens United: Mammon or Democracy?
Much is being written today about the Supreme Court’s recent Citizens United decision, extending the right of free speech to corporations. This about-face in legal tradition immediately opened the floodgates for private...
