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AOL polled its readers and asked them to name their favorite coffee and their favorite coffee they make at home. Below are the results of more than 89,000 votes. Shudder. What’s Your Favorite Home Brew? Folger’s 30% Maxwell House 20% Eight O’ Clock Coffee 11% Gevalia 8% Kona 8% Chock […]

Stuff happens at the cafe that continues to amaze and delight me. This morning we got a call from the NFL. Yeah, the National Football League’s Michael Davis wanted to speak with the owner. It seems that a promotion they do with Wal-mart that provides stickers for sale for local […]

Reuters reports today that there is good news for newspapers—their blogs are being read more and more. Unique visitors to blog sites affiliated with the largest Internet newspaper sites rose to 3.8 million viewers in December, according to Nielson/NetRatings. “This is the first time we’ve really drilled down into the […]

A few months ago, I roared with laughter at a little brochure that was folded inside of my copy of Wired. It was VW’s “Official Back Seat Driver’s Guide,” providing straight-faced tips on how to manage life behind the guy who’s driving. It had that classic look of a manual […]

It’s positively freezing out, and almost everyone I know is thrilled about that. Funny how getting such warm and unseasonable weather makes us all yearn for the ‘real winter.’ The Daily Hampshire Gazette published a section about health yesterday, including an article about the power of coffee. “The good news […]

John A. Shedd was the man responsible for writing the eloquent toast that we enjoyed hearing on Saturday night in NYC. It was a book called “Salt in My Attic,” published in a 500 copy issue, in 1928. My cousin Steve, our Associate Editor, found it for me quickly. We […]

Deerfield Scene One Driving to the dump has been a part of my life since I moved to South Deerfield in 1990. Every week, nearly, I’ve cobbled together all of my recyclables and trash and made that trip over through the windy cornfields of South Mill Village Road. At the […]

Rain pounds down outside and we’re back in New England after the show. One moment that I remember fondly was at a dinner we had to celebrate being together in NYC. We went to an upstairs table at Patsy’s Pizza, where they make pizzas in a coal-fired oven. Over wine […]

Tradeshow days and New York City nights! It is always exciting to be in the Big Apple, just walking down the street provides a jolt of energy and makes me feel lucky to be alive. Today we met hundreds of people who all share a love of travel…that’s why they […]

New York City–I’m just settling into the New York Midtown East Marriot hotel, on busy Third Avenue. Twenty-three floors down, the traffic honks and roars, across the street an office tower is still lit up and people, ant-like, move about their offices and check their email. I’m happy to say […]

Misha Cornes writes in Adotas, an interactive media newsletter, about the digital divide and the senior online set. “My mom is 64. On those rare occasions when I send her an email, with, say, my flight information, I have to call her first to let her know to “check the […]

I found two items in the local newspaper that were interesting yesterday. One was a story in the Republican’s Home section about trends in bedrooms. It seems that MacMansions are going out of style…people are not asking for 5000 square foot homes anymore, the new trend is smaller, cozier, and […]

 This latte was picked up in one of the 800 cafes Goteborg, Sweden.