I’m just back from a virtoustic show at the Iron Horse by Dennis Brennan. He’s a clear singer, poignant writer, and tender ennuciator of lovely songs that he played tonight at the Northampton theater stage. It was a celebration of the guitar, a championing of the instrument, so many fantastically […]
Yesterday at the cafe, I picked up the Recorder and found a lovely tribute written by Gary Sanderson to a ‘hilltown squire’ whom he had the pleasure of spending some time with on a ride over country roads in his pick-up earlier in January. Sanderson thought it was an abandoned […]
I woke up this morning and got a nice surprise. Old Joe my webmaster can still delight and amaze, while at the same time managing to make me almost pull out the few hairs left on the top of my head. Last night I spoke before the Deerfield Selectboard, talking […]
I remember so well that Saturday afternoon when our town offered flu shots for the public. I even put up the notice on the cafe bulletin board, vowing to get the shot myself to avoid getting sick this winter. Then I looked up at the clock that day and saw […]
I remember a spirited debate with Shoul once when I suggested that press IDs, which were once issued to reporters and photographers, were no longer neccessary. I told him that I thought people used business cards now, and that the press card thing was a throw-back, an old and gone […]
Today while all of New England is gathered to watch our beloved Patriots try and make it 17-0, I will be taken away from the game for a phone call. It will be Kevin and Sue McCarthy on the line, calling from their Travel Planners Show in St. Louis. The […]
Yesterday’s post was about Sayulita, Mexico, where it’s balmy, dusty, hot and there is no snow. This week made me realize that despite my fantasies about spending some time in that beach town, for now I’m definitely in New England and it’s January. First, I walloped a stop sign while […]
Kent passed along a book to me last month that I’ve been thoroughly enjoying. He reads so many books and it’s a pleasure to get a crack at them when he’s finished. Today was a sick day, so I had time to enjoy Gringos in Paradise, a new book by […]
I remember when I was a kid growing up in New Jersey, there was a family that had a little cage that their sons played in. It was a cage, not for them to live in, but to play in, but nonetheless, many neighbors talked about this with horror. I […]
Walter S. Mossberg can kill or redeem any electronics product just by a bad or good mention in his personal technology column in the WSJ. I cracked up when I read his review of the new Voyager phone from Verizon, which he wasn’t impressed with. “In fact the Voyager, bafflingly, […]
If you know anyone who is rich, they can’t hold a candle to John Paulson. This hedge fund operator made an estimated $3 to $4 billion for himself in 2007. He did it by betting against the sub-prime loan market, and he hit the jackpot. In today’s WSJ, Gregory Zuckerman […]
Sometimes people comment to me on how much I like reading. I read the entire Wall St. Journal, much to my daughter’s surprise.”You’re always reading, Dad,” she told me, as I finished up the last section. Sometimes my family gets mad at me and says I’m ignoring them (the NJ […]