I’ve really warmed up to my new routine at the Holyoke Y. Entering the building and seeing mothers and tots and then entering the fitness center, that’s filled with people of all ages is heartening. I used to go to a gym in Northampton where everyone was either bulging with […]
I’m the toastmaster general now, seeing as how we’ve upgraded to a new superdeluxe conveyor belt toaster in the cafe. This baby just keeps on rolling, taking in the bagels and spitting them out lovely brown and ready to eat. We’ve had so many problems with burned bread, pasty white […]
You know those books that you love, then you find get tiresome, and then, one day you just pick up a random page and it starts to be fascinating again? Well that’s what I think of American Nomads by Richard Grant. I turned to a page that told the story […]
click the photo to make her huge I got a request to show more Sofie photos. Who can resist this 19-day-old little bundle? As the icy wind blew, we made a daytime fire at 9 Mountain Road and as you can see, Sofie likes it too. January can be a […]
We always try to make it back from wherever we are to catch Sunday’s 60 minutes. It’s still one of the few shows you can say that has real ‘water cooler’ cred, many, many people I know watch it and often a segment I watched they watched too. Last night […]
It’s a cozy Sunday morning with about 5 inches of new powdery snow and we’ve shoveled it all out. Cindy is seen here with Sofie relaxing by the fire. We’ll head up to the cafe and read the papers, and later on we’ll go to our Circulo Italiano meeting. There […]
As I drove north in the GoNOMAD Café truck en route to pick up supplies, I listened to Michael McConnell on the AM dial. He isn’t a total right winger either. He was talking about a new program that the Feds have implemented to get kids to eat their free […]
It’s a complicated day, full of fits and starts and stuff I am not sure how to fix or finish. First it’s getting tickets to Cancun, which sounds great…but then we saw that our Mexican agent’s price was way, way higher than what the airline offered. DÓH! It’s too late […]
In life there are times you have to just hold your tongue and say thank you. Thank you, Recorder, for publishing a neat article about my trip to Iran. Chase Scheinbaum the young reporter got all the facts right, and the photo looked kinda cool. But… It’s NOT on their […]
Who knew that so few people in Myrtle Beach would be willing to shell out $40 or so to visit a rock and roll theme park? But apparently, nine months after raising over $400 million the owners of Hard Rock Park are giving up. They couldn’t have opened at a […]
I did a recap late this afternoon about what I got done today. At the top of the list was a meeting in the cafe with Marty McGuane, the new Director at Franklin County Access Television, which serves the towns of Deerfield, Sunderland, Conway and Whately. It was time for […]
I read a story by Alex Roth in today’s WSJ that made me think two ways about the same problem, from two ends of the railroad track. A large Florida utility that buys long trainloads of coal is trying to get the state to re-regulate the railroad that brings their […]