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Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.
Last Communion of an Island Dog
Last Communion of an Island Dog I died today or yesterday of fleas and famine – sooner both, but consciousness and hunger haunt my rest. I fought life hard, bore...
Fawn in Headlights
Fawn in Headlights You will never again be this alone or alive, Near your mother lying dead in the breakdown lane, And you in the travel lane, trying to stand...
A National Avalanche of Dying Principles….
UVM Medical Center In the run-up to President Trump’s budget submission, some 28 Freedom Caucus members and other conservative hardliners vociferously opposed it, on camera, for their participants. Then, under personal pressure...
Time to stand up for democratic principles….
Kyle Stevens/Shutterstock 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 democrat, Zohran...
Change is in the ivy….
In this season of caps and gowns, change is afoot. The architecture of ivy-decked privilege is ceding ground to a still-evolving but more accessible and affordable vision of higher ed...
Kicking cans…
Licensed iStock Vermont struggles with a lack of leadership or, at best, a confusion about what leadership is. The fundamentals of leadership are straightforward: A leader listens, elicits diverse opinions...
Antisemitism – Anti-Netanyahu: A false equivalency
Photo courtesy BBC I usually write about Vermont, but even here we’re complicit in the horror being perpetrated on Gaza unless we speak out. In several conversations recently, I’ve expressed...
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...
Happy poems Month: Two Superb new Vermont Collections
I often ask myself if depression is circumstantial or anatomical. Although it runs deep in my family, current events certainly play a role, and I know I’m not alone. But...
Our young people are leading in the arts
Dark times in America… Even as Vermont’s only a small part of the whole, our own Senator Bernie Sanders is adding disproportionate reach to our small footprint at a critical...
People of the Reeds by Gavin Maxwell
It was blowing hard and cold when we left the village, and the sky was empty and grey without individual clouds. We left the palm groves and the stretches of...
A New “Women’s Prison”… or a humane reentry facility?
Chittenden Regional Correction Facility (CRCF) One of the benefits of age is the realization that there are few absolutes and that being “right” is often relative. When I was young,...
