John A. Shedd was the man responsible for writing the eloquent toast that we enjoyed hearing on Saturday night in NYC. It was a book called “Salt in My Attic,” published in a 500 copy issue, in 1928. My cousin Steve, our Associate Editor, found it for me quickly. We […]
Deerfield Scene One Driving to the dump has been a part of my life since I moved to South Deerfield in 1990. Every week, nearly, I’ve cobbled together all of my recyclables and trash and made that trip over through the windy cornfields of South Mill Village Road. At the […]
Joanna Weiss writes on Boston.com about an unlikely hero among college students, Jim Cramer. “If “Mad Money” is a business primer, it’s a crash course designed for the ADHD set. Cramer has a penchant for madcap props — he has eaten cereal drenched in soda pop and worn diapers to […]
Rain pounds down outside and we’re back in New England after the show. One moment that I remember fondly was at a dinner we had to celebrate being together in NYC. We went to an upstairs table at Patsy’s Pizza, where they make pizzas in a coal-fired oven. Over wine […]
Tradeshow days and New York City nights! It is always exciting to be in the Big Apple, just walking down the street provides a jolt of energy and makes me feel lucky to be alive. Today we met hundreds of people who all share a love of travel…that’s why they […]
New York City–I’m just settling into the New York Midtown East Marriot hotel, on busy Third Avenue. Twenty-three floors down, the traffic honks and roars, across the street an office tower is still lit up and people, ant-like, move about their offices and check their email. I’m happy to say […]
Cindy gave me a fascinating book for my birthday in October that I recently finished. It’s called Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran, by Elaine Sciolino. The author is a Newsweek and New York Times writer who has spent more than twenty years visiting Iran and has built up […]
Misha Cornes writes in Adotas, an interactive media newsletter, about the digital divide and the senior online set. “My mom is 64. On those rare occasions when I send her an email, with, say, my flight information, I have to call her first to let her know to “check the […]
Last night I enjoyed a few laughs with one of my oldest and best friends, Bill Hewitt. There is something that is so wonderful about old friends…the kind who really know you, remember stuff, and who get the joke–every time. We watched the Florida Gators trounce the Ohio State Buckeyes. […]
I found two items in the local newspaper that were interesting yesterday. One was a story in the Republican’s Home section about trends in bedrooms. It seems that MacMansions are going out of style…people are not asking for 5000 square foot homes anymore, the new trend is smaller, cozier, and […]
This latte was picked up in one of the 800 cafes Goteborg, Sweden.
Today was a good day to catch up with someone special. I have a tradition that every year my godmother Caro sends me a Christmas check. And in return I write her a very long, old fashioned snail mail letter, telling her everything I’ve done over the past year. It’s […]