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 […]
Sometimes I surprise myself by being terrifically organized, and planning way, way ahead. I am like this with trips, I try hard to fill up my calendar months in advance so that everything else I have to do will work itself around the all-important chances to see the world. Back […]
Downtown hotels in major cities can be a joy to discover. This weekend we will find out about Ink48, a new Kimpton hotel in Hell’s Kitchen, lower Manhattan. The website is stunning, all of this glamour and glitz, it will be fun to compare it to other hotels we’ve […]
“You’ve never lived under this, you don’t know what it’s like to have freedom after 42 years,” Mohdi, a middle aged man told Anderson Cooper last night. He spoke jubilantly, unabashedly showing his face on CNN –he was so happy that Ghadafi’s statues were being torn down in Libya and […]
As I made plans to travel to France, and shoot down to Bordeaux from Paris on the grand TGV high speed train, I read with interest about Florida’s rejection of the federal billions to build a high speed rail line from Orlando to Tampa. Governor Rick Scott, a former CEO, […]
One of the nice things about a new relationship are the pockets of community you discover yourself a part of when your partner invites you to one of ‘her’ parties. She’s a dancer and a drummer and a contradancer–a spirit-filled woman. That leads to all sorts of interesting new things, […]
What does it take to get canned just six months after you’ve been hired to run one of America’s most iconic magazine publishers? I wondered this when I read a story in Friday’s WSJ about Time CEO Jack Griffin, who got the ax after his boss, Time Warner CEO Jeff […]
There are times when I reap the benefits of living in a small New England town, and find enjoyment in the depths of winter. Take last Thursday, when I took the truck to the dump to get rid of two week’s worth of cafe recycling. I thought ahead to an […]