Blogger On Vacation: Nothing New Here Until Sunday July 9
This is the holiday week. I could sense this on Friday when my email dropped to trickle, and phone calls reached no one. Few Americans will be working next week, including your blog writer. It’s good to be going somewhere that doesn’t allow me to plug in. Where we are […]
Park and Ride Lot Coming to South Deerfield
I was wondering what the traffic jam was when I got off Interstate 91 north at exit 24 in Deerfield. Lots of drilling and earthmoving. Then yesterday I approached two men in yellow Mass DOT vests and they told me what they were building there at the corner of Rte […]
Composting Curbside Makes Portland Proud
In Portland, Oregon, the trash trucks no longer rumble through the neighborhoods every week. That’s because the city has embarked on a new way of dealing with trash, instead they pick up composted food waste mixed with yard trimmings weekly and now do half as many regular trash pick ups […]
Gifts of iPhones Come With a Catch
Last Friday I joined a group of travel writers on a sort of scavenger hunt, photography/video contest, we made our way from Denver to Keystone Colorado and created a trail of evidence to show what we did. It was a fun day–a tour of the zoo, of Red Rocks concert […]
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars: The Pulsing, Enervating Beat that Sweeps Us Up in Dance
Five men with the same five instruments can produce diametrically opposite music. I thought about this last night when we listened to Sierra Leone’s All Star Refugee Band at the Iron Horse and contrasted the effect of their music to other groups playing the same instruments. Take the guy with […]
Two Little Citizens Coming to Visit
What a treat! Today I go up to my daughter and son-in-law’s house and pick up two delightful companions for the day. Sofie, age 3, and Nathan who is 7. These guys are coming with me while we hit the farmer’s market, then I have a lot of fun things […]
Strictly Sexual: Can Women Hire Out their Sex Lives to Poolboys?
On this heated night with fans awhirlin’ I streamed a movie from Netflix, it was called Strictly Sexual. The premise goes back to the beginning of time, one of the six original plots known to drama. Two women meet two men, confuse them with gigalos and then proceed to install […]
Mutton and Mead: No Need to Put On Your Tights
Last year I decided I had to wear a costume, so I visited a thrift shop and found a gown that sort of looked like something a monk might wear. Then I grabbed my son in law’s big gold cross, and my outfit was complete. I was ready to step […]