Yesterday we had a visit from the f0under of GoNOMAD, Lauryn Axelrod. She just got back from a trip to Argentina’s Patagonia, where she rode horses and wrote an excellent story for GoNOMAD. I had been chiding her that she needed to see the cafe, the website’s namesake community gathering […]
According to the NY Post, smoking is back in a big way in the city’s hippest restaurants and nightclubs. The story described Smoking Speakeasies, where if you’re rich or famous enough, you can puff away with impunity. Shannen Dougherty, for example, was seen puffing away, (“ashing” is the new verb […]
We woke up in Holyoke with a lovely white covering to all that we saw out the window. Two giant woodpeckers were gnawing at the suet feeder, and I had to go downstairs to the basement to catch up on email and blog, due to wireless problems. I got a […]
June Kronholz wrote in Thursday’s WSJ about how the country’s big problems have created a new cool place to work….the US Government. Could it be true that today’s brightest stars will be flocking to work for the Obama-led federal government? Well, so far more than 300,000 of the people on […]
Here is a link to a radio show I did yesterday talking about Iran.
Up early today, my favorite time of the day. It’s still dark and I sat downstairs, and got a chance to read Jim Neill’s “Under the Noho Dome,” blog where he said he was losing his blog mojo. Well, no wonder! He writes pages and pages for each update, and […]
This guy was dressing up his son for some sort of parade. Or maybe they just work as a team as a way of collecting pesos. Medellin, Colombia
I like these two paragraphs from a new article I wrote. After a break for tea and cakes, we made our way back to the town square of Aran, where in the shadow of a giant mosque, lit up in bright lime green, we switched back to the comfortable modern […]
I love this idea. A man named Mike Mitchell has come up with a perfect way to make thousands of people’s lives better. He’s bringing 2000 soccer balls to give out to kids in Togo. Here’s how he explained it in a story in the SF Bay Area San Mateo […]
When I was in the Amsterdam airport yesterday, I bought a copy of the WSJ and read a review of a new book about learning to play one of the most difficult instruments in the orchestra. The book is called “A Devil to Play,” by British journalist Jasper Rees. Writer […]
I had a lot of fun sharing my trip to Iran with you, my devoted and beloved blog readers. I can’t think of anything that’s more fun than having good stories to share with friends and readers who will become friends some day. Hi Peter! On the plane I sat […]
On my last day in Iran, I listened to the sounds emanating up from the street. The wail over loudspeakers of the call to prayer, a man singing in Farsi about Mohammed and about Allah.Even though the mosque where the speakers are is far way and I’m way up […]