Random bits from what’s going on in my universe include a book called Íf You Can’t Make It Here, GET OUT, a tough love guide to New York City Living. This book will be excerpted on GoNOMAD. I was quite cheered when I heard that our Italy ebook is selling […]
It’s another snow day in New England…everyone I know is getting weary of all of these days when everything closes down and the driving is terrible. I keep thinking, no, no, they can’t cancel school again, yet here they go, another day of no school, kids inside, and the cafe […]
I get sent a lot of stuff because people want us to write about them on the website. As these gifts pile up, I notice clearly the ones that I care about and those that I don’t. I must say that today’s Fedx parcel exceeded my expectations, and both surprised […]
A grey, windy day—a good day to sit in the window of the GoNOMAD Cafe and read the WSJ. Here I found a piece by Roya Hakakian about Iran and the Holocaust. The author has a visit from two young female medical students, and at dinner they tell her that […]
A few years ago, an Amherst writer named Dick Teresi came to interview me about a story he was writing for the AARP magazine about RV’ing. I picked up the recent issue of the magazine tonight, and found out that the article ran in the May/June issue. While trying to […]
I’ve always loved Jacques Pepin, the easygoing and talented French chef. He was quoted in today’s Boston Herald, disputing a recently published book that said his pal Julia Child was a homophobe. He also talked about cooking. “It is so much more satisfying cooking for friends and family who are […]
Last night I enjoyed a few laughs with one of my oldest and best friends, Bill Hewitt. There is something that is so wonderful about old friends…the kind who really know you, remember stuff, and who get the joke–every time. We watched the Florida Gators trounce the Ohio State Buckeyes. […]
Falkenberg, Sweden — A Swedish school library is refusing to lend books to pupils if their underwear is showing. Pupils of Tullbro School in Falkenberg do not have to wear a uniform but librarians are clamping down on some teenage fashions. Students who wear hipsters which show off their underwear […]
On the Smokinggun.com website today, I heard about this. Another writer unravelled. “In an October 26 show entitled “The Man Who Kept Oprah Awake At Night,” Winfrey hailed author James Frey’s graphic and coarse book “A Million Little Pieces” as “like nothing you’ve ever read before. Everybody at Harpo is […]