Today was an adrenaline day. One of my first orders of business turned out sour: The plumber, who also turns out to be the Inspector, insisted we have a grease trap in our cafe’s sinks. So that means some sort of vertical drilling up through the apartments and breaking through […]

Paul Theroux’ book “The Pillars of Hercules” has been by my bedside for months. I picked it up again this morning and read this passage about the author’s descent from a ferryboat from Bari Italy, to Durres, Albania. “Knowing so little in advance, I had mentally prepared myself for anything […]

Today while the snow fell in Holyoke, we watched Sunday Morning on CBS. The lead piece was about the wisdom of crowds, how time after time, a large group of people can be wiser than any single person. One example: a crowd in olden days guessed the weight of an […]

Read Paul Shoul’s new story on GoNOMAD about Bilbao and the chefs he met there.

Cow Escapes Meat Plant, Dodges SUV, Train in Montana: The AP had this story today. “A cow that escaped a slaughterhouse dodged vehicles, ran in front of a train, braved the icy Missouri River and took three tranquilizer darts before being recaptured six hours later. News of the heifer’s adventures […]

The LA Times’ Dave McKinnen chronicled the change that has put private tennis clubs on the extinction list. “Lindborg’s story is a familiar one. During the sport’s peak in the mid-1970s, developers couldn’t build private clubs fast enough to satisfy the public’s urge to whack a fuzzy yellow ball. The […]

Horrific people exist who want to kill us. This is what it must be like in Israel, with Sharon just about dead and a mother who celebrates carnage. Bokertov.typepad.com had this. “Whatever, who is, in the words of the Associated Press, the “mother of three martyrs.” She is also a […]

I remember when I used to work for men who had to make quick decisions, and they never did. It frustrated me. Now that I am running these companies, I also have to make the quick snap judgements. Now, decide, spend, save, compare, put-out-fires. Delegate. Well I am good at […]