It’s a glorious day to sit on the back patio and what better to read than the weekend WSJ? Here I found out about the prophet Mohammed’s career as a pirate, and how today’s Somali pirates are carrying on a long Islamic tradition. Stephen Prothero writes that when Mohammed and […]
It was, as some people say, The Bomb! Love Bomb rocked out last night at the Route 63 Roadhouse, that funky music and dancing shack right next to State Highway 63 in Millers Falls. I didn’t know if I’d have much gas left after a few Northampton Pale Ales at […]
Frank Moro Jr. has left this green earth. I didn’t know anything about his illness, I just remember his smiling face, whenever I’d come in with car problems. Frank was one of the first and friendliest people I met when I moved to town in 1990. He ran Fisher’s Garage, […]
From local news from abc40, By Eric Fisher HOLYOKE, Mass. (abc40) — Technology is everywhere, but once you’re done with it, what do you do? In Massachusetts, computers are not allowed in landfills due to their toxic components. But a Holyoke company is offering a way for people to recycle […]
Hey DeWolf, don’t let the door hit you on the way out! Chris DeWolf was infamous, in my view, when he declared that he’d prefer a profit to 300 pageviews. He said he’d give up all of those eyeballs to just make a darn bit of money. And abandoning your […]
We discovered a cozy hideaway when we attended a Holyoke Chamber function below the Waterfront on Main St. in the city’s Springdale neighborhood last night. Both of us had been to the big bar upstairs before but never to their much cozier little bar called the Bungalow, located on a […]
I’m on a roll with my chronicles of life’s little joys. I’ve found another. For years, almost decades, I suppose, the top drawer in my kitchen cabinet has stuck. It was frustrating to open it, resisting and veering slightly off course, so you’d have to really grab it and it […]
At the crack of dawn this morning Nathan crept into my room and woke me up. I don’t mind; these early morning sessions where we go downstairs before Mommy and baby wake up are among my most cherished. Before I was made to play kid’s games on the laptop, I […]
I was pleased to hear from my new friend Rolando, a Cuban engineer who uses our “Send a Friend” to stay in touch with his brother in Virginia. I hope to visit him in Cuba soon. My friend! I happy that you can understand my reasons, since I has been […]
This is one of thousands of egrets who live in the Adams Bayou that we saw from behind the blind at the Shangri La Gardens in Orange Texas yesterday.
On my last night in Texas we did it up in style. I was picked up in an SUV by our lovely hosts Stephanie and Ashley who took us to an upscale Mexican joint called Pablanos. There we joined Stephanie’s husband Sean and sat in a cozy circular table, where […]
Michael W. Hoke makes nature, plants and his incredible garden come alive. He speaks with vigor and boundless enthusiasm for teaching children about nature and about the gifts that the Shangri La Botanical Gardens provide the entire Southeast Texas region. In a pounding rain interspersed with thunder and lightning, we […]