Great Work, Well Worth the Commute
Yesterday as I was driving down Rte 5, I passed this truck parked near the exit ramp off of Interstate 91. I noticed that it had Connecticut plates, and I saw that this guy had parked it there. Here you see his hardworking efforts, he is drawing a sign that […]
Nobody Ever Got a Callous Building a Web Site
This expression cracked me up when I read it on a poster selling power tools. Indeed, my hands don’t bear the callouses found on hard-working carpenters, iron workers or painters. But today I did one of the jobs that gives you callouses and it felt great. I painted the front […]
A Cunning Raid Yields Freedom in Colombia
News about Colombia always pulls me in, ever since I visited Medellin last April. I am going back in late August to Nuqui, a little beach town in the far north. Yesterday’s big news in Colombia and around the world was the raid that freed 15 hostages from the hands […]
Gilded Vanity Plates for the Richest in Abu Dhabi
I thought it was a bit of an extravagance when I bought my “GNCAFE” license plates for the cafe truck. Today I realized that I’m in little league when it comes to extravagant plate splurges. In yesterday’s WSJ, I read about vanity plates going for millions of dollars in Abu […]
Imagine! Staffers Who Actually Live in Hartford
Colin McEnroe is a blogger and writer for the Hartford Courant. Today he gives a sharp-tongued piece of advice to the folks down there, who just recently suffered through another round of massive layoffs, and must be smarting. He makes some good points. Among them is that a morning newspaper […]
Why Do So Many Planes Crash in Iran?
Ben Leffell writes on eTN and asked the question: Why are there so many plane crashes in Iran? It’s an epidemic, statisticly speaking, with nine fatal accidents since 2002 and as many as 302 killed in a single flight. eTN has the story. “The maintenance of the aircraft could certainly […]
Thinking Locally, I Met A Bunch of Like-Minded Business Owners
I’m just back from an important meeting, that brought dozens of local business owners together in Northampton to talk local. It was a membership meeting for Pioneer Valley Local First, an organization of volunteers that seeks to promote buying locally, and getting the public to think about where the money […]
"A Prairie Home Companion" Sets Down in Lenox
Last night Garrison Keillor sang in the rain. In his white shirt and red tie, fifteen minutes before the live Saturday night broadcast of “A Prairie Home Companion” at the Koussevitsky Music Shed in Lenox, he serenaded joyful fans seated on the lawn with a version of the Gene Kelley […]