Dear Leader’s Dreary Country Comes to Life
Richard Read wrote a piece for Newhouse News service about a trip to North Korea. Here at the end, he finally breaks away, and it’s the best part of the story. “The ceaseless propaganda had gripped me, but not in the intended manner: I found myself fighting an impulse to […]
Porsche CEO’s $100 Million Pay Irks Workers
On Saturday night after we got back from our favorite restaurant, Apollo Grill, I got a chance to finish reading the Weekend WSJ, and found a story about Porsche. The headline referred to the $100 million that their CEO Wendelin Wiedeking took home for a year’s pay. That’s making big […]
Random Musings About Nudes on Bureaus and Blog Comments
It’s windy outside and there’s a bit of new snow on the ground. Cindy and I are on our dueling laptops, she doing some sort of continuing ed and I of course, having read all that I can read on line, am sitting here writing blogs. I got a comment […]
Georgi Baby!
Here is my favorite neighbor, Georgi, the owner of Georgio’s Restaurant, located next to the cafe. Every day, Georgi bellows out to me from his stove (shown here) as I run downstairs to retrieve food from the walk-in. “Moxxxy my friend…how are YOU?…what’s GOIN’ on?” He has helped us out […]
In a Scottish Oil Field, Wind Power Cranks it Up
I have been blogging regularly about what I consider a turning point in society’s view of green energy. Again and again I read about initiatives moving forward despite the government’s recalcitrance; it is the market that is pushing hard and the profit motive that keeps them innovating. Last night’s WSJ […]
The Simple Acts That Give Meaning to Life
Today I derived joy from a simple act. I bought a metro shelving unit and organized my very unorganized walk-in refrigerator and everything is now easy to reach, safely put away, and there’s even room for more! I thought for a minute about how great it was after Georgio helped […]
What the Cafe Does to Help Make the Earth Green
Yesterday I had a chance to speak with a group of high school students in an environmental awareness class at Frontier, in South Deerfield. Their teacher, Delfina, brought the group in and doled out dollar bills outside the cafe so they could buy something while I spoke to them. I […]
When Dad Cheers Your Failures, You’re Going Places
Sara Blakely is the women who invented Spanx, a pair of cut off panty hose that shapes tummies and thighs and is now a $150 million company. She was interviewed by BusinessWeek’s Stacy Perman and the last two questions were the best. You’ve said that failure was a huge part […]