The heat is on, and our cafe AC is pathetic. Sweltering as these machines hum full blast, something’s gotta give. So we’re going shopping tonight. We’ve found some great new prospects for the cafe position, and soon we’ll be at full strength once I return from Martha’s Vineyard. Next week […]

“Fat Matt Amorello was a complete boob to the bitter end,” writes Howie Carr in today’s Boston Herald website about the embattled head of the Mass Turnpike’s Big Dig. “Two weeks ago today, he had a deal on the table that would have paid him through the end of the […]

Last night I had trouble sleeping after taking a well deserved nap in the afternoon. There I was, 2 am, tossing and turning while Cindy slept like a dead person. So I got up and read the latest copy of Wired, which as usual provided fascinating material. Apparently there are […]

Today is another busy day at the cafe, with the weather heating up and the people streaming in for smoothies, ice coffee and to use the computers. I was in a meeting with a web designer from Greenfield named Maria when I got a call from Saveur Magazine. It was […]

Back in the cafe today, I sent Alan home early about 2:30. No sense watching him sit around waiting for customers when I can do it myself. I got a chance to read the Recorder, and found a story from the Baltimore Sun. This story made me glad I don’t […]

Today we had a big send-off brunch for the wedding party at Cindy’s Holyoke ranch. The bagels, coffee and hard boiled eggs from the cafe were all a hit, and we watched part of the wedding all over again on video. I slept, like I often do on Sundays, and […]

Today’s the big day, and it looks like the rain is going away. Snuck into the office for a bit, checking emails and thinking about the war in Lebanon, and how often Cyprus has been in the news. I traveled to Cyprus in February and wrote about it on GoNOMAD. […]

Funny Friday at the cafe. Lots of running around waiting for our relatives to come up to celebrate Kate and Francisco’s wedding on Saturday. Today I used my friend Jack’s truck to pick up tables and chairs at Taylor rental, then back in the cafe to meet with our intern […]

Scoop Jackson wrote a long piece about the fact that only four out of 305 sports columnists for US newspapers are black. He makes some angry yet understandable points. “One time about eight years ago, Michael Wilbon walked up to me during a media event at the NBA All-Star Game […]

I met a man today at the cafe who said he lived in Whately, and worked here for a local contractor. A tall, lean man, he said that he painted murals on furniture and in rich people’s homes around here and in Nantucket. He said he thought the wealth and […]

William Grimes reviews a new book by a total and utter loser in yesterday’s NY Times. He’s such a loser that it has become his calling card, ‘he savors his humiliations like fine dinners.’ The man is Toby Young, whose first book was called “How to Lose Friends and Alienate […]

Today’s Washington Post included this story about the passing of classic foreign correspondent Ross Mark. “The quintessential foreign correspondent, dashing and with an engaging Aussie accent, he much preferred globe-hopping as a reporter to staying in one place and climbing the career ladder as a London editor. According to William […]