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 […]
I get emails from a guy named “Riff” called Real Media Riffs. Today’s post chastised the mainstream media for their blase attitude toward global warming. He begins with a new issue of Yankee Magazine—the cover shows a tot with snow falling around him “Snow Days where to go, why we […]
I took a break after cooking dinner (a rarity my daughter often points out) and came downstairs to read the Guardian UK on the ‘net. A story about how a family chemically caused their paralyzed 9-year old daughter to stop growing up caught my eye. “The cause of the controversy […]
A few nights ago I found a documentary on public television about the Gloucester fishing business. The story portrayed several of the members of the communitie’s fishing families, who have struggled in recent years as catches have declined, and the federal government has had to step in. In the late […]
As the winter that didn’t yet happen moves into January, I had a chance to relive the real winter of 2004 when I traveled to Whitefish Montana for a press trip. There I skiied Big Mountain on skis and snowcycles, went dogsledding, explored Glacier National Park and and did some […]
Today is the big day, or should I say, the small day for the Wall Street Journal. In a bid to gain ‘younger readers’ they’ve slimmed down the paper, knocking 3 1/2 inches off papers gargantuan width. Gordon Crovitz, the publisher, said that focus groups indicated that this made the […]
Memories are fickle. I found this out twice when I thought I’d just easily increase my computer’s RAM by adding two new 1 Gig sticks. Easy enough, right? Just unscrew the case and pop out the lighter ones, then put in the new ones and feel the surge of power. […]