Mygazines: Good Idea, Too Bad It’s Illegal
Mygazines was a cool idea, offering free articles from a huge selection of magazines. How can they do this without getting sued? I wrote about this a few months ago, wondering the same thing. It was an incredible site, offering digital pages that turned and so many articles to read, […]
Joseph Strysko, Bowler, Square Dancer
I often think of what the world will be like when all of the veterans and war heroes die. Our society and the little town I live in are full of these guys, many of whom are still married to the woman they met three or four or even five […]
The Places We Live Bring Tough Lives Closer
Yesterday I stumbled upon one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time on the web. It was a site called “the Places We Live,”by Jonas Bendiksen, an art project that tells the first-person stories of people who live in some of the most crowded and dangerous cities […]
Philly’s Phamous Phans Get Ratted Out by SMS
I know a guy named Chet who is from Philly, and he is a rapid Eagles fan. It’s pronounced ‘Iigles,’ and he had that famous Philly accent that sounds a little like a Delaware or Maryland accent. I read today in the WSJ about how this city is combatting its […]
A Man Pedaled by, Alone on a Bike Built For Two
After the cafe closed, I walked the sidewalk and sat for a spell at our outdoor tables. Birds chirped and I savored the crispness of the late fall approaching evening. I sat and scanned the common, and the v of the two streets across the way. Then a man came […]
On the Cobblestoned Streets of Portland, Memories
Nostalgia rained over me yesterday as I retraced the steps of my callow youth. On our way back from Southport Island we stopped by Portland’s Munjoy Hill neighborhood where Kathryn and I lived from 1981-83. I drove around the gentrified area, glistening in the fall sunlight and full of colorful […]
The Real Lobstermen in Boothbay Harbor Maine
We plucked five 11-year-old lobsters from big green tanks at this lobster pound in Boothbay Harbor, Maine this morning. News reports say that the prices are too low, less than $3 per pound wholesale, and the lobstermen are suffering because people think of this food as something only for celebrations. […]
Nothing Makes Me More Mad Than Traffic Jams
On Friday afternoon when I told my cafe staff that I was heading up to Maine tonight, they looked at me funny. Yeah, why WOULD I plan on driving nearly five hours starting at 6 pm on a Friday night? Well, because that’s when we can go, and our dear […]