by Cindy Phillips updated Tue, Sep 20, 2011 10:01 AM I am very familiar with the sound of a dumpster being emptied. At our business in Vermont, the living quarters are directly above the dumpster pad. Where I stay in South Carolina, it is also in very close proximity to one of the neighborhood dumpsters.…

By Cindy Phillips updated Fri, Jun 27, 2014 11:03 AM Schools are letting out for the summer and I expect for most teachers, it can't come soon enough. Violence in schools has become far too common an occurrence. It wasn't that long ago that news of a school shooting brought our country to its knees.…

By Cindy Phillips updated Wed, Apr 30, 2014 11:12 PM A friend recently referred to me as "a nostalgic old fool." I wasn't insulted. For a Boomer it's pretty much our right of passage. As we close in on the reality of our own eventual mortality, we find ourselves feasting on the remembrances of our…

By Cindy Phillips updated Thu, Jan 9, 2014 01:49 PM I just moved into a new home. I did it two days after Christmas which was not the best timing, but it saved me a boatload of money that can go into my retirement account instead. These days, the main focus is the retirement account…

By Cindy Phillips updated Wed, Dec 28, 2011 08:50 AM We Boomers have all heard the story of how many people thought the lyrics in the Creedence Clearwater song, Bad Moon Rising, actually talked about "the bathroom's on the right." Add to this list of misheard lyrics Jimmy Hendrix's Purple Haze line of "Scuse me,…

by Cindy Phillips updated Mon, Sep 5, 2011 12:22 PM We baby boomers are a resilient bunch. Many of us were raised by parents who survived the Great Depression. They found ways to feed their families and keep a roof over their heads with very little. Many of our grandparents came to America with nothing, but with…

By Cindy Phillips updated Wed, Mar 21, 2012 10:22 AM Daylight savings time is wreaking havoc with my body clock. I was in a nice routine of waking up 10 minutes before my alarm chimed at 6 a.m. But since springing forward, I find myself walking around in a catatonic state until lunch time. My…

By Scott Funk posted Jun 26, 2013 So, we aren't called 'Baby Boomers' anymore. If you've been around for half a century or so, 'baby' just doesn't cut it. We are 'Boomers' and we have pretty much had it our way our entire lives. Love us or hate us, we have been hard to ignore.…

Talk of a village at the base of Killington is decades old, but plans are now starting to take shape. Last Tuesday, Feb. 28, SP Land Company, LLC. filed its Act 250 permit application for the $133.4 million Phase 1 of development, along with the conceptual Killington Village Master Plan and a revised application for…

By Cindy Phillips updated Tue, Apr 8, 2014 05:27 PM I have to do it once a year, whether I like it or not. No, it's not an annual physical. No, it's not an annual pap test. No, it's not an annual mammogram, colonoscopy or other radioactive assault on my body. It's a blood test.…