Poem A Day – Jan. 17, 2017

#MIDDLEBURY Poem for My Son in the Car Jennifer K. Sweeney The wipers sweep two overlapping hills on the glass, we are quiet against the squeaky metronome as we often are before the ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Jan. 16, 2017

#MIDDLEBURY Age of Beauty Emilia Phillips This is not an age of beauty, I say to the Rite-Aid as I pass a knee-high plastic witch whose speaker-box laugh is tripped by my calf breaking ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Jan. 15, 2017

#MIDDLEBURY Biking to the George Washington Bridge Alicia Ostriker It sweeps away depression and today you can’t tell the heaped pin-white cherry blossoms abloom along Riverside ... Continue Reading →

Winning Ways – How do you make people feel?

#MIDDLEBURY Insights for Constructive Living by Pat Iannuzzi We all regularly interact with other people in both social and work situations. From the moment we first meet someone, a ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Jan. 14, 2017

#MIDDLEBURY Now Robert Browning Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, – so you ignore, So you make perfect the ... Continue Reading →

Veterans Post – VA podcasts get a thumbs up

#MIDDLEBURY by Freddy Groves The Department of Veterans Affairs has launched a weekly podcast titled “This Week at VA” that includes benefit information and interviews with ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Jan. 13, 2017

#MIDDLEBURY Earthy Anecdotes Wallace Stevens Every time the bucks went clattering Over Oklahoma A firecat bristled in the way. Wherever they went, They went clattering, Until they swerved, In ... Continue Reading →

It Happened in Middlebury – Middlebury’s Religious Institutions – Part 2

#MIDDLEBURY By DR. ROBERT L. RAFFORD From the beginning, citizens living in the part of Waterbury that is now Middlebury were church goers. Religious societies had a central role in ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Jan. 12, 2017

#MIDDLEBURY Read Genesis Gerald Stern I was betrayed by Bohemia early in my life and left a run-down hotel with my eye swollen shut by an insect bite but got my revenge in France and ... Continue Reading →

Diversified Tax Tidbits – Medical expenses and your taxes

#MIDDLEBURY #TAXES by MARK A. BURNS As we start the new year, and with tax return season rapidly approaching, this might be a good time to address medical expenses and your tax return. First ... Continue Reading →