Winning Ways – Develop a personal mission and vision

#MIDDLEBURY #VISION #MISSION by Pat Iannuzzi Most organizations have a mission statement that describes the organization’s purpose for existing in the eyes of both its members ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Nov. 1, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Song T.S. Eliot When we came home across the hill No leaves were fallen from the trees; The gentle fingers of the breeze Had torn no quivering cobweb down. The hedgerow ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Oct. 31, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY An Accounting Brett Fletcher Lauer In this room, hours pass, a slight corruption of each previous allotted time block – and probably confirm failure and humiliation, which ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Oct. 30, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY How I Almost Died in Peru Patricia Colleen Murphy The mounting list of things I needed but could not get. I tried to put on a sweater but I was too small. The ceiling was ... Continue Reading →

Letter to the Editor: Stop Towantic Power still going strong

#MIDDLEBURY #OXFORD #STOPTOWANTICPOWER To the editor: As a member of the Stop Towantic Power Coalition (STP) I have recently become aware that a person or persons are making statements ... Continue Reading →

Letter to the Editor – Did Temple deal with Braith Kelly?

#MIDDLEBURY #OXFORD #TOWANTICPOWERCENTER To the editor: At the Oxford Board of Selectmen meeting Oct. 5, First Selectman George Temple was asked by a resident to comment about the ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Oct. 29, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY The Son I’ll Never Have Mark Wunderlich The son I’ll never have is crossing the lawn. He is lying on an imaginary bed, the coverlet pulled up over his knees ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Oct. 28, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY On Strings of Blue Cedar Sigo for Bill Berkson Was it tonight’s flirtatious remark or his exquisite song-book on stage? My outside life has turned itself in, any opening up ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Oct. 27, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY Big Bend National Park Says No to All Walls Naomi Shihab Nye Big Bend has been here, been here. Shouldn’t it have a say? Call the mountains a wall if you must, (the ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Oct. 26, 2016

#MIDDLEBURY The Captured Goddess Amy Lowell Over the housetops, Above the rotating chimney-pots, I have seen a shiver of amethyst, And blue and cinnamon have flickered A moment, At ... Continue Reading →