Violated in the Middle of the Day in Holyoke
y Last night I got a call from a distressed Cindy. Her house was broken into and thieves stole jewelry, her laptop, her camera and the new HDTV that I brought there just about a month ago. The worst part was seeing that hole…they punched their way in through a […]
Now It’s Time for a Cheese Maker’s Bailout in Italy
On this icy, slippery day, I think about a story I read last night in the WSJ. It was about another bailout, but this time, it’s for Italy’s makers of fine aged Parmesan cheese. Yes, that’s right. Another story of a product that costs more than it sells for, and […]
Talking on the Radio, Tomorrow at 7:30
Tomorrow I’ll be on WHYN-AM 560 radio at 7:35 am to talk with Brad and Bo about Iran. I can just hear them groaning as we begin, amazed that anyone would want to go there, and how scary it must have been. I expect them to ask me sincerely…”why would […]
A Visit from GoNOMAD’s Founder at the Cafe
Yesterday we had a visit from the f0under of GoNOMAD, Lauryn Axelrod. She just got back from a trip to Argentina’s Patagonia, where she rode horses and wrote an excellent story for GoNOMAD. I had been chiding her that she needed to see the cafe, the website’s namesake community gathering […]
"You Mean You Can Smoke There? Let’s Go!"
According to the NY Post, smoking is back in a big way in the city’s hippest restaurants and nightclubs. The story described Smoking Speakeasies, where if you’re rich or famous enough, you can puff away with impunity. Shannen Dougherty, for example, was seen puffing away, (“ashing” is the new verb […]
The First Snow Puts a Nice White Cover on the World
We woke up in Holyoke with a lovely white covering to all that we saw out the window. Two giant woodpeckers were gnawing at the suet feeder, and I had to go downstairs to the basement to catch up on email and blog, due to wireless problems. I got a […]
More People Want to Work for the Gov’t…for Now
June Kronholz wrote in Thursday’s WSJ about how the country’s big problems have created a new cool place to work….the US Government. Could it be true that today’s brightest stars will be flocking to work for the Obama-led federal government? Well, so far more than 300,000 of the people on […]
Listening to Me Is Just As Fun As Reading…Isn’t It?
Here is a link to a radio show I did yesterday talking about Iran.