Lemondrop is AOL’s saucy, sexy, cheeky fashion website. Some times I gotta admit I do read their hilarious takes on today’s hip styles. Here’s some of their juicy copy about things men don’t like that women sometimes wear. “Maxi Dresses What are you hiding under there? A peg leg? Chemical […]

During the depths of the recession, trucking companies and railroads took steep nosedives, running half empty, and leaving thousand of rail cars on sidings, empty and unused. I wrote a blog about all of these railcars causing dismay in little towns, giant barriers that nobody could move.  Well, officially, railroads […]

Today I read an essay by a college student living in Amman Jordan.  Unlike most of the stories I download and read for GoNOMAD, this piece had little of value to a traveler, but a world of moral value to anyone  interested in communication between cultures. In fact as I […]

A few years ago, if you drove down any Massachusetts road where work was being done, you’d pass a state cop in a Crown Vic with the engine running. All day. Unlike all of the other states, Massachusetts for decades used off duty staties instead of civilian flagmen…paying them $40 […]

Again and again, Hollywood types make Hugo Chavez out to be some sort of hero. Yet his country is sinking deeper into an economic morass than ever before. A story in this weekend’s WSJ detailed what market analysts are saying, that after contracting almost 5% last year, and the same […]

I read a story in the NY Times while sitting in the window of the cafe, it was about how bike trails and encouraging biking is bringing another unwanted class of bike enthusiasts…thieves. But bikers and cops are fighting back, using baited bikes to catch bike theft ringleaders, and using […]

Despite the threat of rain, the crowd was large and happy last night while we watched Garrison Keillor take the stage in a light khaki suit and sing with the Wailin’ Jennies and a woman named Nancy who sings with Nickel Creek.  The only thing that stumped me was the […]

If you’ve ever traveled to Rochester, NY, you know how depressing it can be up there, especially in the dead of winter. I thought about this hard bitten city when I read a story in the WSJ by Dana Mattioli about Kodak’s chief, Antonio Perez. The silver haired CEO talked […]