Writing a Yearly Letter to a Dear Godmother
Today was a good day to catch up with someone special. I have a tradition that every year my godmother Caro sends me a Christmas check. And in return I write her a very long, old fashioned snail mail letter, telling her everything I’ve done over the past year. It’s […]
Today Show Misses the Big Weather Point
I get emails from a guy named “Riff” called Real Media Riffs. Today’s post chastised the mainstream media for their blase attitude toward global warming. He begins with a new issue of Yankee Magazine—the cover shows a tot with snow falling around him “Snow Days where to go, why we […]
Ashley Will Never Grow Up–On Purpose
I took a break after cooking dinner (a rarity my daughter often points out) and came downstairs to read the Guardian UK on the ‘net. A story about how a family chemically caused their paralyzed 9-year old daughter to stop growing up caught my eye. “The cause of the controversy […]
Fate of Gloucester’s Fisherman Told in Film
A few nights ago I found a documentary on public television about the Gloucester fishing business. The story portrayed several of the members of the communitie’s fishing families, who have struggled in recent years as catches have declined, and the federal government has had to step in. In the late […]
Still a Thrill to See My Story in the Advocate
As the winter that didn’t yet happen moves into January, I had a chance to relive the real winter of 2004 when I traveled to Whitefish Montana for a press trip. There I skiied Big Mountain on skis and snowcycles, went dogsledding, explored Glacier National Park and and did some […]
A Smaller WSJ? We Still Won’t Read It
Today is the big day, or should I say, the small day for the Wall Street Journal. In a bid to gain ‘younger readers’ they’ve slimmed down the paper, knocking 3 1/2 inches off papers gargantuan width. Gordon Crovitz, the publisher, said that focus groups indicated that this made the […]
That’s the Smell of Cooking Memory
Memories are fickle. I found this out twice when I thought I’d just easily increase my computer’s RAM by adding two new 1 Gig sticks. Easy enough, right? Just unscrew the case and pop out the lighter ones, then put in the new ones and feel the surge of power. […]
Sarah Ayers Was the Star of First Night
Last night we went out on the town of Bethlehem, with our friends Trudy and Graham whom we’re visiting in their spacious new house in Northampton, PA. Like the other events across the US, First Night offers dozens of musical and comedy acts. We began in an old ice house […]