To anyone who has taken a press trip, you know that moment when your flight is bearing down on you, and you’re making your last minute checks and worrying about what you might have forgotten. This morning I”ll fly to Spokane to begin what is being billed as a Mancation. […]

As Jim Olsen announced from up on stage around 6:45 tonight, the twenty-fourth Green River Festival is in the books. It was a splendid assortment of music, and the hot sun and familiar faces made it all pretty darn all right. But if I were on the committee organizing the […]

It’s already a blazing day and only 8:30 am as I sit typing in a very cool cafe by the Delaware River in Lambertville, NJ.  My niece is the manager here, and I’m meeting my sister and my cousin for some sort of work out.  Not sure exactly what she […]

In a recent WSJ, there was a tantalizing headline: Eating to Live, or Living to Eat?  The story explained how there are two reactions to a delicious slice of chocolate cake being set before you. One is, well, of course, get outta the way, here I come with my fork […]

Everything is more complicated than it appears in Afghanistan. I learned about this reading last night’s WSJ, where a story by Yaroslav Trofimov detailed that a newly rebuilt power plant courtesy of the United States is actually providing money for the Taliban…the people we are fighting!  It’s a $100 million […]

As a fact-filled follow up to my World Cup post, I present some statistics about viewership that I think back my point of how far soccer has to go before it is widely accepted in the US. Despite Shoul’s insistence that a big crowd in a small Mexican restaurant in […]

HOW TO TRAVEL WITHOUT KILLING EACHOTHER

It’s good to be back in the humid pea soup of a Western Mass. July. Of course, I step back in and all hits the fan, but I am confident we can fix the problems and get it all cooled off again.  It’s an exciting time, we’re hiring at the […]

Outside of the Hilton on each corner of the street, yell0w-jacket cops were stationed last night, as if anticipating a surge in riots because of the World Cup.  But the meek, penalty-filled game provided few thrills, it was a shoving match with just one goal. Sigh. Now I am convinced […]

Right near where this gigantic ferris wheel is now, a bomb was planted by IRA terrorists in 1996. The bomb was 3000 pounds, and the destruction included an entire Marks and Spencer department store plus city blocks far from the epicenter. It was a horrible amount of destruction that surprisingly […]