Reading the local paper, I find an account that startled me. That’s because I can’t believe how cruel and mean men can be to women. Take Peter, featured in a big local story in the Recorder. He shows up in the doorway at his ex-girlfriend’s house late at night, uninvited, […]
I often say that television is better now than it ever was. That’s because reality TV is just more fun than anything scripted. Last night was a perfect case in point, I watched a new ABC show called “The Shark Tank” and I loved it. Six savvy multimillionaires sit in […]
Peggy Noonan wrote a piece in the WSJ after the death of Senator Kennedy that resonated with me, as her writing often does. It might have been a bit egotistical of her to print the text of a speech she wrote for Ronald Reagan that he gave at a fundraiser […]
You all know what the weather was last night. Rain, rain and more rain. A perfect night to go to an open air concert featuring James Taylor and Friends. We had the picnic inside our friend’s house in Lenox and headed over to Tanglewood. It was worth getting wet for. […]
My favorite stories are the ones that seem to jump up and write themselves. Some times a travel story is so easy to write because the topic compelled you, it made you want again and again to talk about it. With this kind of subject, writing’s a breeze. I published […]
Clint Eastwood is not only a powerful actor, but a powerful director too. I’ve enjoyed two Clint films in the past week, first it was Mystic River, and last night, his latest film “Gran Torino.”Torino begins with a premise…this character Walt Kowalski is a grump, and he’s carrying the world’s […]
I love the things I find on my RSS feed. Here is a collection of the world’s most dangerous bridges. The winner, says Web Urbanist, is the Hussaini Bridge in Pakistan. It crosses the Borak Lake, which rages beneath its flimsy wooden slats. “Moms, dads, grandparents kids all use this […]
Farouk Shami decided he’d do even better business if he made his products in the US. So two years ago he decided to bring the manufacturing for his ceramic curling irons back from China to Houston, the city where he lives. Now he’s hiring 1200 workers to make the high-end […]
Everyone I know uses Craig’s List. And almost everyone I know who used to rely on newspaper classified ads has made the switch, much to the chagrin of my friends at the paper. Today as the sultry heat waited to pour down buckets, just before I snoozed, I read a […]
Terry Teachout always has something interesting to write about. His column “Sightings,” in Saturday’s WSJ this week was about a media giant’s demise…but this one happened in 1949.Back then, everyone listened to network radio, but suddenly, everyone was talking about this new thing called television. Teachout points out that in […]
The rains accompanying hurricane Bill have swept away the sultry humid air, today’s a Saturday morning with glorious temps…and a good time to read last night’s WSJ, where I found out about a video that’s being printed into a magazine. CBS is promoting its fall TV shows by inserting a […]
We had a backyard barbeque in the steamy August evening. Old friends of mine came and some new friends of my daughters, but one of them was a man whose name I recognized. David Goff. He and his wife live in Deerfield and in their home office run a fascinating […]