Speaking to College Kids Makes Your Blood Flow
WOW! I am pumped up after speaking for an hour to a group of 12 Umass students in the cafe. I got a call last week from a professor teaching the journalism course, ‘writing for the web.’ So I agreed to have them come for coffee. Two carloads of assorted […]
Drugs Work Better When African Bellies are Full
Last night I read a fascinating account in the Wall Street Journal that profiled Joe Mamlin, a doctor in Kenya and professor of Medicine at Indiana University. He has developed a practice that addresses a simple but often neglected fact–AIDs patients do much better after they get drugs if they […]
Summer Down South: New Zealand’s North Island
I am having a photo show to celebrate our one-year anniversary for the cafe! We are serving cocktails and inviting our regulars as well as our friends. If you read this, you’re invited to the party! Friday April 6, 7-9 pm.Cocktails, photos, hors d’oeuvresGoNOMAD CafeSouth Deerfield
A Magazine for People Who Love to Read Obits
I am a regular obituary reader. I always scan them and most of the time I read the whole thing. I am fascinated by what is written about people once they die. My father is famous for many things; one of them is that he’s already penned and proofread his […]
Cellphones Are Like Icebergs
The Wall Street Journal’s Money section had a piece today that made me laugh out loud. It was Jason Fry’s reasoning for why he’s not ready or interested in the newest ‘all in one’ phone. He makes sense of our confused gadget-laced world. “But the list of devices generally heralded […]
Paris Follows Lyon and Installs Bicycles to Rent
Up early again for a shift at the cafe. I read the Gazette and found an AP story that was inspiring. Paris has decided to follow the lead of Lyon and install a city-wide network of kiosks for cheap bike rentals. In the months ahead more than 20,600 bikes will […]
Burning Megargeeville Signals the Very End of an Era
Last night at Bootstrap Farm, our weekend rental, we burned Megargeeville. This was a choice piece of our past, a collection of little boxes we decorated when we were kids to look like a small city. We had the movie theater, the drive-in, the stores and shops that we called […]
One Last MV Gasp—Emptying Out the House
It’s ten am on a brilliant Saturday morning, and we’re in the ferry line. How many times I have sat in this line, a hundred different scripts could begin at this setting. The Vineyard holds a special place for me and for my relatives, and today we’re gathering at the […]