Goodbye Gino, We Will Miss You!
Gino Piccin has passed away. I got an email yesterday from his daughter Nancy, she had seen my 2005 blog post about him. When I wrote it, I thought it was the final end of a long battle. Though he was very sick back then, he rallied, and came back […]
Eric Suher: The Arts are Fragile, Support Them!
Today we went up to Northampton for the Really Big Show, a 17-year tradition that involves dozens of acts, from circus aerialists to jugglers and a Don Ho impersonation. After the intermission, the Northampton Center for the arts gave an award for community activism and dynamic leadership to my old […]
No Longer Bowling Alone, But Golf is Sinking Fast
I never knew this until I read it in today’s New York Times, but golf is losing popularity. The story said there has been a serious decline since 2000, and that people who used to play frequently are playing less and less. Golf courses are trying new schemes to battle […]
The Johnson Who Keeps Talking About the Money
Today’s a quiet day at the cafe, and I got some time to read the WSJ, and find out about a heir who has made nearly everyone he knows very mad. That would be Jamie Johnson, great grandson of the founder of J&J, who as we like to say in […]
Speaking in Boston with No Worries or Fear
I’m still up on the podium, after all of the people left the room. I breathed a sigh of relief this morning at about 11:30 am, after my successful presentation at the Boston Globe Travel Show. I was nervous, yet prepared. It all went well and it was a thrill […]
Random Musings that Amaze Me
Sometimes I am amazed at how much cool stuff I learn one day’s newspaper. Below are random musings from a night flipping my eyes between Simon Cowell and Idol and the Wall St. Journal. In NYC’s Cooper Union college a new nine-story building is being built–with elevators that only stop […]
Finally, Something Useful to Do with Heat Seeking Missiles
America’s military brass are surely on cloud nine tonight, as they gear up to use a $69 million toy to do something useful: blow up a spy satellite the size of a city bus. CBS news had a story on their website. The eye in the sky is named US […]
It’s Either Í Know Nothing’ or ‘Let Me Tell Y ou How It Is’
I’m nervous. I’m nervous because on Friday I am going to stand up in front of dozens of people in the travel business and make a speech. It won’t be a real speech, not like a politician speech, it will be a presentation. It will be about search engines and […]