Last night a group of men and women who work at home gathered to hear details of a new plan to create a cooperative work space to Easthampton. Organizers Seth Lepore and Sita Magnuson offered their vision of a place that not only provides a place to work for creative […]

The Green River Festival has been on my calendar for many months. In fact, all throughout the year I make sure that whatever plans I have made for the summer don’t’ get in the way of attending both Saturday and Sunday July 12-13 so as not to miss any of […]

Stalin has died and Joe McCarthy is saying bad things about General Montgomery. And on stage at Smith College’s Mendenhall Center for the Performing arts, an audience of people old enough to get the jokes was laughing along with a cast who could all easily keep up with Neil Simon’s […]

Easthampton is becoming the place to be in Western Mass.  On Saturday my friend Jack and I  rode our bikes there from Northampton on the bike trail and we joined in the city-wide celebration called Cottage Street Cultural Chaos. Indeed, it was chaos, there was so much going on in […]

I am just out of the water after a terrific paddle down the Hillsborough river with Michael Cole, a guide for Canoe Adventures located near Tampa. The river is narrow, teeming with bird and reptile life, and was a joy to paddle from end to end. If we had stayed […]

We rode the waterside bike walking paths in Tampa this morning, beside me was Kevin Craft, who runs the only bike shop in the center of Tampa called City Bike Tampa. I asked him what he thought about the coming municipal bike exchange, as is done in so many cities […]

What does it take to get your destination on television? To answer this burning question here at PRSA, I attended a seminar with three television production company veterans, and they answered the question quite succinctly. For Irene Wong, who runs a production house that makes shows for the Cooking Channel […]