Scottish writer Ewan Morrison recently published a book about his experiences as a newbie Swinger. The book is called “Swung,” and philosophically explores the motivation behind people who choose to have sex with strangers. Here is how he reflects on the experience, after realizing it was not for him. “My […]
Read some amazing stuff in newspapers the past few days. Yesterday it was the NY Times, about cellphones in Japan that read billboards and provide links to websites for passing motorists. It is a new technology that uses square designs similar to barcodes that impart much more information…and open up […]
Secret Negotiations for a New Monetization Scheme: We’re in negotiations for a new branch of our business–Blogging for cash. We aren’t gonna tell you who and we aren’t gonna tell you how much, but leave it as we’ve figured out another clever monetization technique and we think the numbers will […]
Immigration is a loaded word, and in Hazelton PA, the mayor is on the warpath against what he sees as the biggest problem the scrappy town has ever faced. But in a thoughtful column by Julia Vitullo-Martin in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday, a cogent argument was made for […]
Today I am in the cafe and I’ve reached a conclusion. The farmers in this area are not interested in starting a farmer’s market in South Deerfield. I sent out letters to twenty area farmers, hoping to interest them in setting up a town market on Saturdays. I set up […]
Northampton is the big city to those of us who live in small towns and in the country. So that’s where we always meet, in the big city, and the restaurant that we almost always gravitate to is Pizza Paradiso. Friday night it was cold and windy, and we agreed […]
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 […]