Heading Down to NYC for the New York Times Travel Show
I’m heading to the family homestead today–a journey I’ve made so many times I think I could drive the four hours in my sleep. Yet even now, after so many decades of doing this very same drive, there are always questions about which route to take? If I Google it, […]
Where There’s a Will…
There is nothing that makes you feel more mortal than writing a will. It’s one of those things that you want to get right, and you put off doing. I remember back in 2007 I was going to hold a meeting for people in the cafe who wanted to have […]
Writing Isn’t Hard. You Just Cut Open a Vein and Bleed…
I”m sitting in the Cushman Cafe surrounded by young men and women on laptops. I can imagine that the wifi connection is strained with all of the open laptops–practically every table has someone who is connected to the web and they’re all doing this as they drink coffee and take […]
A Snowy January Day
It’s a new year and I’m finally FINALLY getting back to this groove. It’s funny because I’ve approached this screen half a dozen times and yet I haven’t posted. I start thinking about posting and then never do. I understand why so many blogs are abandoned, but fear not, […]
My Goals for 2015
Here are my goals for 2015 Stay alive. With a health scare in October I was and am most concerned about being here. I don’t have a life threatening illness, thank God but as with all of you, I just want to survive here for as long as I […]
You Don’t Find McDonald’s in the Search
What is the future of America’s largest restaurant chain? Times are bleak at McDonald’s, people are confused by the long menus and not inspired by the food. In a story in the WSJ, Julie Jargon interviewed several experts and a millenial about what it would take to get them to […]
Pallets: The History of An Essential Part of Moving Everything Anywhere
We don’t give much thought to the lowly pallet, that piece of southern yellow pine that sits beneath every shipment in every truck and is what everything in every warehouse in the world is sitting on. But today I read a long story about this important part of manufacturing, and […]
A New Bicycle Highway System Around the US
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials today announced that their Special Committee on U.S. Route Numbering has approved 1,253 miles of new U.S. Bicycle Routes (USBRs): USBR 1 in Massachusetts and Florida, USBR 10 in Michigan, USBR 11 in Maryland, and USBR 90 in Florida. Realignments were also […]