Today my daughter Kate is handling the interviews for servers at the new GoNOMAD Cafe. We lined up about five candidates, and so far one sounds like a keeper, and the second one who didn’t show up, she’s not. “Late to the interview, late to the job,” said Kate. I […]
Tonight I drove around and around in the New York City traffic, listening to a new FM radio station. One of the hosts was called “Radio Chick” and she lead a spirited discussion on a new topic–Dinner Whores. These are the women who go out to dinner with men again […]
I read a chilling story yesterday. A little girl lived on a farm in Turkey. She loved many of the chickens in the barnyard, and often held them and kissed them. Last week she was playing with one of her favorite chickens, who was ill. The farmer ran outside and […]
One final push and a list to check off. We’re off tomorrow morning to New York City for the Adventure Expo travel show. This show is a biggie: 30,000 people came through last year, and we had a booth that was visited by what seemed like all of them. Like […]
We put up a video on the staff page of our Computer Cleaners site. Click the link to see something that will make you laugh. I love this!! hee hee PLAY CATUS MOVIE
On the Smokinggun.com website today, I heard about this. Another writer unravelled. “In an October 26 show entitled “The Man Who Kept Oprah Awake At Night,” Winfrey hailed author James Frey’s graphic and coarse book “A Million Little Pieces” as “like nothing you’ve ever read before. Everybody at Harpo is […]
I worked for the Daily Hampshire Gazette from 1986 through 1995, and one of the suggestions I often used to make was that we sell the unsold space for a discount after deadline. Don Nunes, the ad director, called them “remnant ads,” where house ads would usually run. We did […]
I woke up this morning after one of those dreams you keep thinking about. It was about my prep school reunion, and the sadness of saying good bye to all of those old chums. But then I cracked open the laptop and eventually landed on Google Video. What a treat! […]
Like many dispirited single women, Maria Headley feared that her taste in men was sabotaging her quest for love. The bookish, intellectual types she favoured seemed to offer nothing but awkward coffee dates and graceless passes – never romance, nor the spark she craved. Such serial disappointment, she concluded, could […]
Today was an adrenaline day. One of my first orders of business turned out sour: The plumber, who also turns out to be the Inspector, insisted we have a grease trap in our cafe’s sinks. So that means some sort of vertical drilling up through the apartments and breaking through […]
Paul Theroux’ book “The Pillars of Hercules” has been by my bedside for months. I picked it up again this morning and read this passage about the author’s descent from a ferryboat from Bari Italy, to Durres, Albania. “Knowing so little in advance, I had mentally prepared myself for anything […]
Today while the snow fell in Holyoke, we watched Sunday Morning on CBS. The lead piece was about the wisdom of crowds, how time after time, a large group of people can be wiser than any single person. One example: a crowd in olden days guessed the weight of an […]