The Eagle Killer has now faced justice. It’s all over the papers, Michael Zak Jr, who we wrote about back when he was arrested, is on trial this week for the downing of an eagle, as well as the cold-blooded murder of more than 250 other birds. “Hatchery Owner Detested […]
WOW! I am pumped up after speaking for an hour to a group of 12 Umass students in the cafe. I got a call last week from a professor teaching the journalism course, ‘writing for the web.’ So I agreed to have them come for coffee. Two carloads of assorted […]
Last night I read a fascinating account in the Wall Street Journal that profiled Joe Mamlin, a doctor in Kenya and professor of Medicine at Indiana University. He has developed a practice that addresses a simple but often neglected fact–AIDs patients do much better after they get drugs if they […]
I am having a photo show to celebrate our one-year anniversary for the cafe! We are serving cocktails and inviting our regulars as well as our friends. If you read this, you’re invited to the party! Friday April 6, 7-9 pm.Cocktails, photos, hors d’oeuvresGoNOMAD CafeSouth Deerfield
I am a regular obituary reader. I always scan them and most of the time I read the whole thing. I am fascinated by what is written about people once they die. My father is famous for many things; one of them is that he’s already penned and proofread his […]
The Wall Street Journal’s Money section had a piece today that made me laugh out loud. It was Jason Fry’s reasoning for why he’s not ready or interested in the newest ‘all in one’ phone. He makes sense of our confused gadget-laced world. “But the list of devices generally heralded […]
Up early again for a shift at the cafe. I read the Gazette and found an AP story that was inspiring. Paris has decided to follow the lead of Lyon and install a city-wide network of kiosks for cheap bike rentals. In the months ahead more than 20,600 bikes will […]
Last night at Bootstrap Farm, our weekend rental, we burned Megargeeville. This was a choice piece of our past, a collection of little boxes we decorated when we were kids to look like a small city. We had the movie theater, the drive-in, the stores and shops that we called […]
It’s ten am on a brilliant Saturday morning, and we’re in the ferry line. How many times I have sat in this line, a hundred different scripts could begin at this setting. The Vineyard holds a special place for me and for my relatives, and today we’re gathering at the […]
Today’s a busy day, and that’s the way I like it. So many comings and goings, and so many balls in the air, I’m back and forth between my two offices, skipping across the puddles of the rapidly melting snow. First task of the day was to organize a mailing […]
“Oh we’re gonna have a wing ding,” sang Donald Fagen,“a summer smoker on the ground,”and thinking about this music makes me think of our Anniversary party. We’re going to celebrate our one-year anniversary of the cafe, and the five year mark for our flagship, GoNOMAD.com. There will be cocktails and […]
In the Scotsman newspaper in Edinburgh, this column was recently published by a woman who is sick of all the nudity she sees in Scotland. “But in addition to the paparazzi shots of scantily clad stars on beaches, and of savvy glamour models who make an annoyingly large income from […]