When we were growing up, a big part of our family lore was that our great uncle, Frederic H. Gibbs, designed the fastest ocean liner ever built. We used to visit FH and his wife, Bess, at their summer cottage at the Weekapaug Inn on Rhode Island’s coast. Fred had […]
My mom first clued me in. Being a grandparent is beyond satisfying, it’s like getting a do-over for the mistakes you made when you raised your own kids, until they had kids. I have a few friends who are now just experiencing multiple child rearing, and having completed my stint, […]
When you’re off on a trip, you mostly think about where you’ll be staying when you get there. You plan a rough itinerary, maybe leave some wiggle room for whatever might happen along the route, but for most part the plans involve the destination. But what about your car? Where […]
I am playing around with my new website and it’s fun. I am finally able to say that we have a better mobile site than I thought we would. As a person who uses an iPhone incessantly, I can say how important the mobile look is. Now a screen tells […]
At a poker game, I told my friends how funny I thought last night’s Saturday Night Live was. Really? That’s something new, sneered one of them. It’s true. The show is rarely that funny and sometimes borders on simply awful. But on Saturday night, their opening with a dead-on impersonator […]
Last week was pretty exciting when I got an email from a television producer for the Travel Channel who asked me to audition for a new TV series. Of course, I was flattered, but then when they asked me to send my best video clips, I had to pause. I […]
Last night was a triumph for Amherst–they held a wonderful block party and it felt like the whole town took part. I was proud of this nearby town for getting something this big together and especially for blocking off traffic from Kendrick Park up the top of North Pleasant Street. […]
When I come back from a trip, there is always a highlight…or as I like to say, the elevator story. That’s because most people when they ask you “How was your trip?” will only have time to listen to that one story, or about as long as an elevator ride. […]
Today I had a whole day in front of me and I wanted to see more of Mexico City. So I ventured down into the vast metro system here and took a ride out to the end of linea numero 3 toward Tlatelolco. This system is vast, and it’s North […]
Last night there was a gigantic protest in the Zocalo, Latin America’s largest open square, near city hall in downtown Mexico City. Thousands gathered beneath what must be the word’s largest Mexican flag to protest against presidential Pena, saying he had cheated to get on the ballot. I was not […]
We were honored to have the city’s Secretary of Tourism join us at Izote last night with his lovely Argentinian wife. Carlos MacInlay, an animated and very warm man asked me for my notebook–to diagram the impressive history and struggles that this ancient city has gone through to get to […]
I left a whole lot of problems, anxieties and worries on the floor when I left the Temazcal today at the W Hotel here in Mexico City. It’s a profoundly moving ritual that took me to a realization of a great and wonderful truth–my anxieties don’t rule and my life […]