Ruba Nadda’s 2005 film Sabah told the story of a family of Syrian immigrants living in Canada, who through the course of the film learn how to blend the old and the new despite tough challenges mixing distinctly different cultures entails. It was one of the sweetest films I’ve seen […]
I heard a story while we were in the lodge at Powder Mountain about our host who was in a gondola with five young boys. Rich was surprised that all five of them were toting skis, and not snowboards. “Our dads like to snowboard, so that’s why we prefer to […]
Tonight we are lodging at Sundance, once the home of the famous film festival and today an upscale resort, conference center and ski area that’s owned by the famous actor. Everybody knows who he is, and of course, the first thing I asked our host Lucy Ridolphi was, ‘where is […]
The city of Ogden Utah is abuzz with the sound of its boosters, many of whom came here to ski and just stayed. Again and again in this city of 240,000, I heard stories about transplants who now make Utah their permanent home. Rick, our host here who sells the […]
I stepped out of the Salt Lake City airport terminal and met my host, Jessica, who arrived in a big van. Perfect, I thought, for carrying skis, since I was here for just that reason. After a stop at a ski shop, I asked her what people were talking about […]
Jerry Seinfeld is still kinda funny. I saw him on Leno last week and while he does have this new smugness, this omnipresent knowing smile, he still can come out with some good lines that make me chuckle. He just wears really expensive suits and shoes now. He did a […]
In my continuing research into the story of Massachusett’s most notorious mobster, I picked up Brutal, a memoir written by Kevin Weeks, who for many years was the muscle behind Whitey Bulger. Week’s book is a picture of delusion….he talks abou being forced to box in his living room as […]
Every day there is another story about the ramifications of Google’s new algorithm, designed to lower the rankings of so called “content farms’ in the search engine’s results. Google’s goal was to penalize lower quality websites, but they have hurt many legitimate sites in their quest. In today’s Wall St. […]
In the Arkansas Ozarks, there is a medieval fortress being built. I am going to see it in late June. It’s called the Ozarks Medieval Fortess and is being built by a team of American builders, being guided by experts in Medieval building to keep it all authentic. In fact […]
I stared into the screen a few hours ago, when I was faced with what to blog about on this sunny first dau day of March, 2011. Since nothing that rang out, clear and true, that made a perfect topic, I let the window close and moved on with my day. […]
Ahhhh it’s so much fun to visit a tradeshow instead of being a part of its inner fabric and having a booth! I got here just in time yesterday to walk up on stage and talk to a packed house about a topic that’s dear to my heart, travel writing. […]
I’m on board the Megabus and so far I am a fan! It arrived on time, the driver is feisty and takes no crap from dumb automobile drivers, and he’s striving to keep us on schedule. We left Hampshire Mall at 11:30 am and all I had to do was […]