Yesterday was my partner Mary’s birthday, and I wanted to make sure that the present I got her was more about experiences we share together and less about accumulating more stuff. Stuff is the bane of so many of us, that we pile up into our stuffed closets, our rented […]

When my partner Mary is in a crowd, she zeroes in on the smallest citizens. She gravitates toward children since she knows them so well, after working in elementary schools as an occupational therapist for nearly 16 years. It always charms me to see this, like when we were in […]

From Drop Box

I had a minor health problem and finally decided that it was time to see a specialist to try and solve it. Armed with the name of the specialist who practices in Springfield and Florence, I phoned their office. It didn’t take long to realize that one of the first […]

One of the things I love about Greenfield is how full it is of people who are willing to go out on a limb…to move a little further. The town and a small gang of five dedicated citizens and many supporters has teamed up for these diverse events. A video […]

This is one of those mornings when I can relate to those many people I have met who no longer live in the cold parts of the United States. They told me about it when I visited Maui, and when I went to Molokai, and every time I chill out […]

I picked up a New Yorker from June of this year and found a story about a restaurant in Brooklyn called Roberta’s. I’m not likely to go there but I still found myself fascinatined by this new place in Bushwick Brooklyn. In the Tables for Two column, the featured Roberta’s […]

I read a story in Wired by Rachel Swaby while I tred the treadmill. It explained how nearly every technology we have created to solve our energy problems, there are always sticky wickets looming. Green Power is struggling, here’s why. Solar Power. The price for conventional solar cells is down […]

Have you heard about Spotify?  Why, it’s simply…amazing!  I can dial in just about any musician I can possibly think of and whoooof! It’s playing every single song that artist has ever recorded. Right there on a super easy to use player. Wow. This changes the equation in music….Spotify is […]

Educators from around the world are now flocking to Finland, since it’s been revealed that their schools are among the best in the world. I can attest to this after a semester with Helena my intern from Finland–who seemed more prepared, wrote with more fluency and generally did a better […]

Last night I read a NY Times article about the answer to a question President Obama posed to Apple executives last year: Why can’t the iPhone be made in the USA? Sadly, the history of this iconic device says a lot about China, sophisticated supply chains and the huge difference […]