November in Vermont is fallen leaves, early snows, sweaters, coats and mittens. It is warm expectations of get-togethers with family or friends over a table laden with turkey, mashed potatoes, and all your family’s traditional dishes.But if money is tight, and choices are made between keeping the lights on, paying for needed medication or food,...Read More

In our busy lives, the urgent often fills our days, as we run around putting out fires, and responding to events as they occur, but there is a more thoughtful approach to life and time management.The Merril Covey matrix, which is built on the Eisenhower matrix, can be helpful as a business tool or a...Read More

When I was a child, I read comics and was fascinated by Superman. I wanted to leap tall buildings, run faster than a locomotive, stop bullets, fly into outer space, catch the bad guys, and rescue people. Super heroes ignite out imagination with their amazing abilities, but even more than that, super heroes inspires us...Read More

There’s an old camp game in which the kids call out “What time is it, Mr. Fox?” The person who is the “fox” calls out a time. The group gets to take that many steps but each individual can decide if they take big steps or little steps. When they get close, the Fox calls...Read More

At Aunt Dot’s Place, a local food shelf in Essex, we don’t let one bad apple spoil the whole bunch. Volunteers pick up produce weekly from local grocery stores, and then sort out the bad apples, potatoes, oranges, assorted veggies, berries, etc. which they throw into green compost buckets.Chris from Mullamore Farms in Jeffersonville picks...Read More