By Cindy Phillips posted May 16, 2013 Answer: Only one; so long as she can bat her eyes and smile while asking a man to do it. Now, before you get your Victoria Secret panties or fishnet stockings in a wad, it is a joke. Times have changed and "we've come a long way, baby"…

By Cindy Phillips posted Feb 7, 2013 I have never denied the fact that Billy Joel is my all-time favorite entertainer. I admit my relationship with him has been on the outs for the past, well, I guess it has been more than a decade. He lost me during his "I want to write classical…

By Cindy Phillips posted Jan 10, 2013 My granddaughter was born yesterday. Seven pounds and seven ounces of precious life. It was an exciting event and a dozen of us paced the hospital waiting room in wait. As much as I longed to see that baby, I first wanted to see my daughter to be…

By Cindy Phillips posted Dec 27, 2012 I swear I have no idea how another year rolls around so quickly. As a kid, a year seemed like an eternity. As an adult, it is more comparable to the blink of an eye. Where are the brakes for this speeding freight train called the golden years?…

By Cindy Phillips posted Dec 13, 2012 Find a penny, pick it up All the day, you'll have good luck! I stopped this morning on my way to work to purchase my weekly lottery tickets. This was the morning after the largest Powerball jackpot in history had two winning tickets drawn - neither of them…

By Cindy Phillips posted Nov 14, 2012 We Boomers were raised with an old-fashioned work ethic. Our parents believed in longevity on the job. In other words, you found a job, worked there for 30 or 40 years and retired. During those years, you worked 50 weeks a year and enjoyed the patootie out of…

By Cindy Phillips posted Jul 11, 2012 Well golly, another icon has crossed over. Not across the road though. Andy Griffith joined the growing list of superstars who have left this life. Seems to be happening on an all-too regular basis these days. The people who impacted our baby boomer lives are reaching the end…

By Karen D. Lorentz updated Wed, Jan 25, 2012 03:07 PM Vermont's third oldest ski area and one of the first thirty in North America, Pico is a mountain where a sense of community and the joy of snow sports prevail. Since its Nov. 27, 1937 debut, skiers of all ages have found Pico to…

By Karen D. Lorentz posted Jan 2, 2013 Hopefully you have been reading about the new Andrea Mead Lawrence Lodge that the Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports program and the Pico Ski Education Foundation are engaged in building at Pico to facilitate and enhance their respective programs. By sharing the two-story building, they will each…

Karen D. Lorentz posted Oct 10, 2013 "Grow the market" is the rallying cry in the U.S. ski industry, especially with the fear of the baby boomers "aging out." But that doesn't mean that Killington and Pico have forgotten about the "golden oldies" - also known as the 'mature market' - who still enjoy being…

By Karen D. Lorentz posted Sep 19, 2012 Charlie Wise was introduced to skiing after his father attended the 1932 Lake Placid Winter Olympics and "decided I should learn to ski. I was taught how to herringbone up the hill but not how to turn," Charlie said of learning on a Long Island golf course…

By Karen D. Lorentz posted Aug 30, 2012 A big man with a Vermont sense of humor and abundant Yankee ingenuity, Royal Biathrow was one of the first locals to notice the potential in the Killington Ski Area. A logger since high school, he "saw the price of logs drop as plastics came out in…

By Cindy Phillips posted Aug 23, 2012 I walked into the office break room the other day to find a co-worker cleaning up what appeared to be a volcanic eruption. I knew immediately what had happened - she tried to cook grits in the microwave. A month prior, I had experienced the same catastrophic result…

By Karen D. Lorentz posted May 23, 2012 On April 23, VPR aired a commentary by Bill Mares that confirmed a long held misgiving. Sometimes critics don't give credence to intelligent leaders because the critics have an agenda that is less than totally honest or a passion that is more personal than legitimate. Most Killington…

By Karen D. Lorentz posted Jul 3, 2013 Skier visits near all-time record Vermont just recorded one of its best ski seasons ever, despite a later than usual start for most areas. In fact, it may have been the best season ever if one examines the numbers and accounts for the actual methodology used to…