Today, I talked on the phone with my regular correspondents. Every day at 12:30 pm it’s my job to call my parents, Bumpy and Vally. I have to check to make sure that she’s taken her Parkinson’s medicine and so a regular caller am I. It’s one of the most […]
This is one of those topics I’m not wild about sharing, but it’s kind of a big deal so share I must. I last spoke to my blog readers about this in November last year when I had a check-up that went well and all was ok. Now the area […]
I was pleasantly surprised yesterday evening when a traditionally goofy penny-ante poker game staged each year at Thanksgiving became a full-on, challenging, normal-stakes poker game. What a treat! It’s hard, for some reason, to get people to play poker. There is only a certain type of man or woman who […]
It’s Wednesday, November 22, and it might as well be the holiday. Last night was the big crush of traffic on the highways, the airports were mobbed and according to NBC, more people will hit the road this week than ever before. Thanksgiving remains the only true four-day holiday we […]
I met with a group of landlords and other folks who live or own property in my village, South Deerfield this morning to discuss what we can do to help bring more businesses into town and make the downtown more inviting. Present were Rick and Julie Neylon, Town Administrator Wendy […]
Friendships are important to me, sometimes I think I make them too important and I don’t realize that people are busy and they are not ignoring me–just living.
Why do I travel? Tonight, the answer couldn’t be clearer. Tonight, I am so aware of exactly why, and it’s given me an exhilaration and excitement about my upcoming trip. I’ve been sick and in bed way more than I ever have in the past two weeks, but now I’m […]
I can’t remember a time when I felt more energized and happy to be back in my office working. I think it has to do with the contrast from the previous few weeks when I was laid up with that leg infection. Everything I tried to do was awful, so […]
I had lunch with Martin Booth, the editor of the Bristol news, arts and lifestyle magazine B/247 today at a fish and chips joint called Salt and Malt. Nice simple food, well done and gluten-free batter. I asked him what a few of the topics were that people are talking […]
I spent today wandering around two seaside towns on the southern coast of England. I took my time, absorbed the local history, and met local shop keeps and others who shared a bit about Seaton and Sidmouth. My original plan to walk ten miles on the Southwest Coast Path was […]
How do you meet dozens of people in the space of just 90 minutes? In our industry, we call it speed networking, or, as some mistakenly refer to it, ‘speed dating.’ It’s where a group of 120 digital influencers (not sure I like that term, but…) gather in a big […]
I arrived jet-lagged but ready to face the 9000 travel professionals who descend upon London’s Excel Center yesterday, the opening day of World Travel Market. This event is unlike any other in that there are no consumers—it’s only travel people, and boy there are a lot of booths to visit […]