Flying to Jamaica on Weds, I’ll Share it All Right Here
One of the ways I get revved up when I sit down to write a post is to look back at what I wrote exactly one year ago today. I remember after I begin to read the year-old posts exactly how I felt when I wrote it. As if it […]
UK’s Tesco Just Didn’t Understand American Supermarket Shoppers
It’s amazing that a company with a $72 billion supermarket business in Europe and around the world could stumble so badly when they tried to open a chain of new supermarkets in the US. In today’s WSJ, I read the story of how Tesco is giving up its Fresh and […]
Greenfield’s Innovation Center: Can We Make It Happen?
I remember well the times that I would be counting the meager earnings while looking over the bills to be paid at the GoNOMAD Cafe. I used to think, jeez, what will I do when I have to close this place? Where would I go if I didn’t have a […]
What Makes a Great Weekend?
We only get 52 weekends a year, and I often like to take stock of what transpired during mine, sort of like how I am after a movie or after a dinner date. Did we like it? Did we have fun? Would we want to do it again? What was […]
A Houseful of Guests and Warmth of Fire and Intimacy
It’s December 1st and it’s snowing. Perfect. The month is here when we all spend more than we really have, yet we all keep spending and spending, throwing our cares to the wind. We have three houseguests and the upstairs is packed full, all three bedrooms occupied by my three […]
Routines Make Our Lives Go Smoothly
Routines are comforting, and make our daily lives feel more secure. Not knowing what is going to happen is much worse than a predictable steady flow of life…and that’s what I have always have had in my home life, just like my parents did. My dad has a very regular […]
For Ten Years, I was Kent’s Boss–Because that’s What He Did
He always called me his boss. Kent liked that, because it said a lot about how he treated his role as one of GoNOMAD’s most prolific contributors. He was a professional traveler, and blogger, and photographer and his life was about the journey. He lived it to the utmost. Last […]
King Philip Was Not the Great Man His Father Massasoit Was
I picked up a book I bought a few years ago and am truly enjoying it–Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick. How appropriate to be reading a book about the Pilgrims on this Thanksgiving day. But the first half of the book has hardly been about the great solidarity, feasting and peace […]