August 6, 2010
We all know when your gardens are in full bloom, the weeds are prolific and rapidly taking over, it’s summer! Our Inn-beds are filled with city weary souls that love our location! Love that rural ambiance, that natural environment that we culture and protect for them; that they can [...]

June 11, 2010
Why stay at Inns? I can’t believe when I stay at an Inn that I have never been to before, that there is yet one more way, that the Inn-keepers can be different, and running their Inn uniquely from any other place that I have been. Yes, it is partly the setting, it [...]

It’s January and we are embracing a New Year; a new decade! I am stewing about the importance of having values; what were your thoughts to lead you forward to consider Inn-keeping or actually becoming an Inn-keeper? What was it that made you decide to leave the corporate milieu? There is lots of turmoil in [...]

Happy New Year to you all out there! It is always startling to realize another year has passed. We are beginning a new era; it’s now the year 2010 … awesome! Out of my window the wind is blowing, snow has been pushed up into piles, and the streets are mostly clear, but not the [...]

The snow finally fell and stuck.  Four inches, enough that I could snowshoe through our woods…the quiet, the trees laden with snow, boughs bent to block my path: Winter has arrived.
For many of my friends who are Inn-keepers, this is a very busy time of year. I know that the decorating is done, holly on [...]

A view from Brattleboro, Vermont.
Most of us are tempted, at times, to seek another profession.  There are not many other countries that offer that opportunity as liberally as this one! So, why not? Then how about considering being an Innkeeper?  You would be your own boss, create a wonderful ambiance for the worn out, tired [...]

Walking through our woods in early morning, the air fresh, Chocolat my Weimaraner, sprinting after a scent of maybe a bobcat, deer, porcupine, or chipmunk, pointing at birds, I revel in my good fortune of living in Vermont; on Newfane Hill and toiling in my favorite town, Brattleboro.
Those walks clear my head. But often my [...]

After almost 30 years visiting Inns, giving seminars on Innkeeping, consulting in the transfer of hundreds of Inns and B&B’S, our commitment has not varied: we love the Inn business and are proud to be part of this hospitality niche. There is PAII and Select Registry to provide on-going training and updates on every imaginable [...]

You know what really fascinates me are the way people are living their lives.  Reinventing themselves and re-reinventing themselves, again and again! It is the spirit in some of us that doesn’t want to stay in the same position at a job, or in a status position that doesn’t allow us to move any further [...]

Here we are, after a 7 hour trek from Vermont, on a mountain top at 2100 feet. A pristine lake, deep and clear, in the middle of the town, with huge Victorian mansions built around the lake; some as early as 1850. The banks of mountain laurel and rhododendron garner the immediate path around the [...]