Today I derived joy from a simple act. I bought a metro shelving unit and organized my very unorganized walk-in refrigerator and everything is now easy to reach, safely put away, and there’s even room for more! I thought for a minute about how great it was after Georgio helped […]
Yesterday I had a chance to speak with a group of high school students in an environmental awareness class at Frontier, in South Deerfield. Their teacher, Delfina, brought the group in and doled out dollar bills outside the cafe so they could buy something while I spoke to them. I […]
Sara Blakely is the women who invented Spanx, a pair of cut off panty hose that shapes tummies and thighs and is now a $150 million company. She was interviewed by BusinessWeek’s Stacy Perman and the last two questions were the best. You’ve said that failure was a huge part […]
I read a shiver-inducing feature today in the WSJ, it was about cobras who live in large numbers in the hot Bengali plains southwest of Calcutta. The snakes are revered by the Hindu faith, and no one except priests are allowed to touch them or harm them. One man said […]
Oh what a trove of riches I was provided with this chilly morning in the WSJ. As Cindy and I watched the chickadees and cardinals feast on the feeder’s seeds, I read a wonderful piece by Eric Felten. His topic was ‘The Art of Drinking Well,’ and he describes the […]
It’s a brisk November morning and predictably, the cafe is quiet. Not dead, just quiet enough to give me a chance to sit in my favorite window seat, gaze out on the bright sun and deserted streets, and read the WSJ. I read a piece first about Iraq’s surfeit of […]
Jeff Robbins is a Boston lawyer who was a delegate to the UN Human Rights Commission during the Clinton Administration. He wrote a piece in the WSJ that was highlighted by the words, ‘but they did not do so’ and it made a strong case against the Arab world that […]
It never takes long to find something compelling in the WSJ. I read George Ander’s column and it hit a point I’ve been making for years: That the environment is becoming more of an economic than a social issue–and that is how we are going to truly solve this big […]
I got an early start today, joining Brad and Bo on their WHYN-am morning show offering my travel tips to their audience. I felt like I gave them some good advice…such as my old canard about bringing a surge suppressor to charge up electronic devices in foreign places. I pitched […]
I’m sitting in the Orlando Airport Southwest terminal and thinking about Randy Miller. Randy passed away in June, and the last thing on this trip I had to do was to join his family and some of his friends at the lovely Veteran’s Memorial near the bridge over the Intercoastal […]
We met this Osprey as we kayaked today on the Indian River. My guide was Kristen Beck, an expert paddler and naturalist who told me about the 400 species of birds that live here and that this is one of the world’s most diverse estuaries. Paddling was refreshing, there were […]
