In Sad Atlantic City, Hope Is a Losing Bet
I remember when my parents took my little sister and me to Atlantic City in 1970. That was eight years before the city’s first casino, Resorts, opened and singer Steve Lawrence lost the first $10 to the house. Back then the hotel of choice was the oceanfront Chalfont-Hadden Hall, and […]
If Your Kid Needs Medicine, You Find the Dough
I just finished a movie that makes me scratch my head and say…what the heck? I do love digging into the deep, deep long tail that Netflix has to offer, but sometimes I pull up a dud..as Cindy often loves to remind me. This film is called “Explicit Ills,” and […]
A Rainy Saturday: A Perfect Day for the Dump
Don’t rainy Saturdays make you feel productive? That’s what they do to me. I’m up and full of ideas on what good things I can accomplish that I’ve been meaning to get done for months. For the first time in recent memory, both my daughter and my son-in-law are home […]
Hidden Tech Party Brings the Geeks to the Cafe
It’s not a major birthday year but hey, it does only come around once. Today I’m fifty-one. Wow, it was just last year that we had the major party that every red-blooded American man deserves….but this year no big plans, just a bunch of computer geeks who are coming to […]
Writing’s Done, for Today Anyway
Random notes on the life of an editor, blogger and cafe owner.Phew! I got my homework assignment done. That’s a little what it felt like as I finished off my report from the National Parking Association meeting I attended in Washington last week. I provide lots of quotes, lots of […]
In Nigeria, Companies Are Thinking Before they Flare
You might know the term to flare off from when you drove the New Jersey Turnpike as a kid and asked a grown-up what those fires on top of the tall smokestacks were. You were told it was natural gas burning off from an oil well. In Nigeria, flares have […]
Be Very Glad Your House Isn’t Built with Chinese Drywall
How would you like to be Alfonso Sanchez? He’s the unlucky owner of a $1.7 million home in Davie Florida that he can neither rent nor sell. And the last thing he wants to do is live there. Why? Chinese drywall. Sanchez is just one of the more than 1500 […]