Jennifer Wilbanks briefly spoke when the mower’s engine died in tall, wet grass. Daniel Yee of AP met her in Lawrenceville, GA. “I’m doing well,” said Wilbanks. “I need to get back to work. I don’t want to get into trouble,” she added. Her lawn mower then kept dying in […]
Naush Boghossian writes in the LA Daily News about the wake-up call of ABC’s anchor’s death from lung cancer. “John Wayne, Bob Marley, Steve McQueen and Peter Jennings. Each man was among the best in his profession, and each, in his own way, epitomized cool. But the mystique was shattered […]
Arthur Frommer was profiled in the Seattle Times by Jay Boyar of the Orlando Sentinel. “We lived very close to the bone,” Frommer recalls. Still, to hear him tell it, life in Jefferson City was largely carefree. When he was 14, though, his father found a better job and the […]
A heart surgeon once told me that the best way to increase the number of available human hearts for transplant is to get rid of helmet laws. Suddenly there are many healthy hearts available from unwitting organ donors. CNN just published this similar story. “Motorcycle fatalities have risen sharply in […]
Today’s Sunday NY Times included a story about a rich man who has become Chile’s largest landowner. Douglas Tompkins, founder of the North Face and Esprit clothing companies, first fell in love with Chile as a backpacking teenager. Now he has turned his land, about the size of Rhode Island, […]
Cindy woke me up early today, at 7 am on a Sunday, asking “hey come on, it’s time to check to Google alerts!” We have been waiting anxiously for today, since a few weeks ago when we corresponded with Beth Harpaz, Travel Editor for the Associated Press. She wrote a […]
Sam Hartshorne, 20, has joined the roster of writers who contribute stories to GoNOMAD. Sam went out to San Francisco and joined the Green Tortoise bus for a 28-day trip up to Alaska. The trip took a long time, spending it all together on a converted bus. His story is […]
Hugh Hefner has a new reality show on E!. Comcast had this to say…”More than anything, the program is a bittersweet take on how one man’s dream might be an imperfect fantasy for his women. “I think there’s two main adjectives people think when they see us: bimbo and slut,” […]
Thomas Friedman‘s column is so logical and simple, it is almost hard to bear. Why can’t some of these ideas make it on the political agenda? “During the 1973 Arab oil embargo Brazil was importing almost 80 percent of its fuel supply,” notes Mr. Luft, director of the Institute for […]