The way I see it,  you turn fifty and you have only two choices.  You can buy into middle age and prepare for that gradual decline of…everything.  OR…you do what you can to fight the common wisdom and make however long you’re given…whether a week, a month, or thirty years…as productive and active as possible.  [...]

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Hervé Filion, a legend in harness racing.  Now 70, he is one of the winningest drivers in history.  If you’re a fan of trotters and pacers, head up (or down) to Barton, Vermont and enjoy the 143rd Orleans County Fair.  There’s racing both Thursday and Friday this week, post time is 1:00.  Get there at [...]

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Say what you want (not too many people liked him) but George Steinbrenner not only changed the New York Yankees, he changed sports.  One of the reasons we pay athletes obscene amounts of money is because Steinbrenner, a shipbuilder by trade who bought the Yankees from CBS for a song, was impatient and did not [...]

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“It’s the organ at the church.” That quote is from May of 2000, spoken by the Yankee outfield Paul O’Neill on Bob Sheppard Day at the old stadium. Shepherd, the public address announcer at Yankee Stadium for over a half-century, died Sunday at  home on Long Island.  He was 99. “Certain sounds and certain voices [...]

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Formula 1 is pulling all copies off YouTube, BUT…this video of Mark Webber’s crash at the European Grand Prix in Valencia, Spain on Sunday is a stunner, and before you watch, we would tell you that after this horrific accident, he hopped out of what was left of his car and walked away.

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BRAVO.

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The F1 circus that is, after a year off.  The party started on Friday afternoon at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. The party continued Friday and Saturday nights all along Rue St. Catherine.  Crescent and Peel were both closed off to allow the beautiful people AND the beautiful cars to show off.  Recognize this car?  Send [...]

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We have gathered during snowstorms, we have been pelted by sleet, howling north winds roaring through the  Willoughby Gap and we have gathered during occasionally nice weather.  Last year, it was partly cloudy and temperatures were balmy…in the mid 50′s. On Saturday we spent the morning skiing Upper & Lower Willoughby, The Dippers and the [...]

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Those who live in the Northeast Kingdom know the special relationship between the border towns of Derby Line, Vermont and Stanstead, Quebec.  It boasts the fine Stanstead College, the completely amazing La Feuillantine patisserie (worth the 35 minute trip from here every single day of the week) and the even more  amazing Haskell Free Library [...]

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