It’s a glorious Sunday at the cafe, many people coming and going. I had a chance to read the Republican and found a story close to my heart. It was about free newspapers, and quoted readers in Baltimore MD as having to fight to stop a free daily from landing […]

I’m just back from a virtoustic show at the Iron Horse by Dennis Brennan. He’s a clear singer, poignant writer, and tender ennuciator of lovely songs that he played tonight at the Northampton theater stage. It was a celebration of the guitar, a championing of the instrument, so many fantastically […]

Yesterday at the cafe, I picked up the Recorder and found a lovely tribute written by Gary Sanderson to a ‘hilltown squire’ whom he had the pleasure of spending some time with on a ride over country roads in his pick-up earlier in January. Sanderson thought it was an abandoned […]

I woke up this morning and got a nice surprise. Old Joe my webmaster can still delight and amaze, while at the same time managing to make me almost pull out the few hairs left on the top of my head. Last night I spoke before the Deerfield Selectboard, talking […]

I remember so well that Saturday afternoon when our town offered flu shots for the public. I even put up the notice on the cafe bulletin board, vowing to get the shot myself to avoid getting sick this winter. Then I looked up at the clock that day and saw […]

I remember a spirited debate with Shoul once when I suggested that press IDs, which were once issued to reporters and photographers, were no longer neccessary. I told him that I thought people used business cards now, and that the press card thing was a throw-back, an old and gone […]