Random musings on this cold March morning the second day of spring: Things in the cafe are looking up! We had our best day ever on Monday, and did it with our homemade banana breads and other goodies. We didn’t buy any pastries that we’d have to throw away, we […]

Boingboing.net had a link to this wild and . Love these photos of overloaded vehicles of every stripe

Does everybody really love a parade? Today I drove over to the corner of Appleton and Beech Streets, in the area of Holyoke known as the Flats. This was once an Irish enclave, but now it is nearly all Hispanic. I ducked into a crowded little grocery store where people […]

Mark Cuban is the outspoken owner of the Dallas Mavericks and a founder of Broadcast.com, which he sold to Yahoo for billions. He talks about a problem that we will all be talking about in the future…on his blogmaverick.com site. You heard it here first. In the next few years, […]

We made a fire and I read the NY Times on line this morning, we got up so early it feels like it’s already 2 pm but only 10:30. A story detailed the story behind a popular trend: Fair Trade products. “Fair Trade labels don’t list the amount paid to […]

Hiawatha Bray writes in the Boston Globe about a new trend: businesses are asking for ZIP codes when customers pull out their credit cards. “A thief usually won’t know the ZIP code assocated with the card he’s using. So requiring the ZIP code is a simple way to reduce fraudulent […]

Brian McGrory wrote about the Mittster in the Boston Globe, and got it spot on. There is something he couldn’t put his finger on about Governor Romney, and it hit him when he went to a speech before a chamber of commerce group. There, the governor looked at his watch […]

The Huffington Post is the hottest blog going, all LA cool and stuff. She was chided recently about publishing text that was “from George Clooney’s blog” but was really written by a publicist. How shocking! “First of all, is the blogosphere powerful or what? As has been endlessly noted, the […]