When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey, Peter Heller was my pal who lived in Brooklyn. He used to come out and visit us, and they called us ‘city mouse and country mouse.’ I have just reunited with this old friend, who I haven’t seen since 1980, […]

We have been in Chile for just a few days, and it seems like much longer. We flew this morning from Santiago to Balcameda, a tiny spot on the Argentinian border in the pampas. We then set out over windswept roads the entire width of this 104 km wide country […]

We jumped into a Mercedes taxi in Santiago, Chile, this afternoon and in the back seat flap we found a convenient NY Times news digest waiting for us. Among the day’s news was an item about the “FedEX Economy, evidence that the speed with which American business responds to different […]

From Tina Brown’s recent Washington Post column on the lack of juicy memoirs being written by former and current Bush staffers. “And maybe a Bush memoir will give us a road map at least to some of the mysterious gaps and silences of the past five years. What was really […]

Kent gets ready for lobster in Martha’s Vineyard last summer. 

Our new sign on the Interstate Highway 91 North.  Billboard advertising has always been exciting to me. I believe there is no better way to publicize a business than a nice-looking sign on a busy highway. I went out with the signmakers today and counted the cars whizzing past as […]

So I’m driving to work this morning, and this dick pulls out in front of me… 

Sometimes you get jokes by email. Eric Jayne sent me a few… …I’ve sure gotten old. I’ve had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement,new knees. Fought prostate cancer and diabetes. I’m half blind, can’t hearanything quieter than a jet engine, take 40 different medications that makeme dizzy, winded, and subject […]