However short this trip is, it was fine with me to spend the day looking out at the Gulf of Mexico from my seventh floor perch here at the NH Hoteles. When I checked in, they strapped a wristband on me that’s provided me with Coronas and food for the […]
I sat at the breakfast table with a view of the azure sea, and right beside me sat a man facing a portly couple, both looking at a form he wanted them to fill out. What else was he doing but selling a timeshare, the leading business of this, the […]
Does anyone care that Myspace, the once-high flying website purchased by News Corp more than four years ago, is just about dead? The moribund social networking site was once the hottest place on the web, now it’s just a bunch of ads and no one really cares about it. Think […]
The snow I eluded as I sped east late last night finally caught up with us here in Deerfield, with flakes coming down and the cafe full of people enjoying the atmosphere and sipping coffee. I was thrilled to be told this morning about Phoebe Mitchell’s inclusion of some of […]
It’s very late, but this massive caffeine buzz isn’t close to going away. I just escaped a terrible snowstorm by driving fast, eastward, as the storm followed dumping massive snowfalls just behind me. I’m glad I made the trip, considering that I would have been stuck in New York state […]
It’s a familiar scene. Kent and I drove into Manhattan last night and once again we got that sense that we had come to the right place. The occasion was a media show by France Tourism, a combination of Air France, Rail Europe and tourism officials from Normandy and Rhone […]
As I fell asleep after one of the best Superbowls I’ve ever watched, I thought about the connections and the various lines that bind people together. There was a commercial during the game’s third quarter for Google, perhaps spurred on by the early success of rival search engine Bing. I […]
Samuel Bowles is an unappreciated yet wise economist who runs the Santa Fe Institute, a radical hotbed where people with big brains meet and talk about issues. I read in the Santa Fe Reporter about one of Bowle’s theories, which intrigued me. He states that in the US, one in […]
“I have met so many people as a result of social media,” said Leslie, an active blogger, twitterer and Facebooker, and one of the presenters at Podcamp Western Mass. “I met Morris, my partner, and I met another person who became a business partner, and so many people all over […]
Doesn’t a free trip to Cancun sound good? Yeah, it does, but when you book a ticket six days in advance the flight details are kinda gnarly. I’m not one to complain but I fly out of Bradley at 6 am and spend about four hours in Dallas. It’s only […]
Cindy and I traveled to Mexico last January and upon my return I wrote a story for GoNOMAD titled “Ecotourism in Cancun: Wilder than we Expected,” about the contrast between the stereotype of Mexico’s most popular tourism destination and the public perception of ecotourism. The story was about things you […]
I awoke to the sound of a 5-horsepower motor whirring in the driveway across the street. It has snowed and Kate next door was using her snowthrower to clean the white. It’s early February and I can only say I’m glad that January is gone. As I lay back in […]