They’re All Watching a Christmas Show!
In Goteborg, each Christmas season there is a video show, projected on the front of a huge building that faces the end of the main boulevard. It shows dancing elves, singing Irish lassies, and tinkerbell, and uses the indentations in the building as part of the show. It’s a huge […]
Sweden’s Full of Babies, Tots and Nursing Moms
Babies, babies, everywhere in Sweden you see a parade of prams and the shuffling of tiny feet. Our guide Ingrid told us that they are seeing another baby boom here, so many young people are having children in Sweden. If our three-days so far give an accurate read, we’d say […]
How Expensive IS Sweden?
I asked myself before we flew over here…is Scandinavia the world’s most expensive place to visit? Sadly for the tourism boards, it has been painted this way to Americans, but after three days here I would have to disagree. Here are some of the things we paid for and how […]
Welcoming Bounteous Christmas Spirit in Sweden
Sweden, more than any other place I’ve visited, really knows how to get into the Christmas spirit. That’s Christmas, not that lame ‘happy holidays’ we get back home. Today we got a chance to wallow in St. Nick, in this city of 500,000 that was founded back in 1621. We […]
Gothenberg, Sweden: The Lights are Low and Mellow
We arrived in Gothenberg Sweden today, pretty jetlagged and happy to dive into our soft down beds at the Elite Hotel in the center of this seaside city. On the plane I was briefly thrilled to be able to get on the Internet using the soon-to-be-discontinued Connextion service by Boeing. […]
Flying to Sweden Tonight
Today I am up early thinking about what I need to do before we fly tonight. We are going to Sweden for a week’s trip, visiting the city of Goteborg on the Western coast. I have not thought that much about this destination, letting the place just sneak up on […]
Obama: "You Better Not Make Fun of My Big Ears"
Barack Obama was in New Hampshire and coasting to the beat. Everybody was loving what he was saying, and he was quickly being annointed as the savior. At one point he was finished speaking, and he sought out columnist Maureen Dowd of the NY Times. “Hey you,” he said, wading […]
Reading about Richie and Carter on the Bus
I traveled to NYC yesterday to go to lunch and a show with my beloved mother Valerie. While on the bus, I got a chance to read the NY Post and found a funny little anecdote about Christmas in Cindy Adam’s column and a troubling account about Jimmy Carter. “Lionel […]
Damn It Craig, Why DON’T You Wanna Make Money?
Louis Hau writes on Forbes.com about something that baffles newspapermen and capitalists…a company that DOESN”T WANT to make big money. “Craigslist President and Chief Executive Jim Buckmaster isn’t nuts. He just sounds that way, particularly to anyone who thinks that the point of running a business is, you know, to […]
Globe Comes West to Feature the GoNOMAD Cafe
WOW the Boston Globe included a half-page article about the cafe in their Sunday Travel section. Featured in the photo prominently is Elizabeth Bagley, our barista who just returned from Amsterdam, where she traveled to write a story for the website. Diane Daniels had written about me before, during Kate’s […]
Boy Fights Hawk to Save His Dachshund
Norman Miller of the Boston Herald had a great story today about a valiant fight to save a dog from a soaring hawk. “Young Chris Campo had to fight a wild beast for his puppy’s life on Friday when a red-tailed hawk tried to turn the Weston youngster’s Dachshund into […]
David Phelps Brings Songs of Jesus & God to Barre
Last night we ventured into uncharted waters, we joined more than 700 other folks who filled up the Barre VT Auditorium to hear a concert by David Phelps. The band was tight, there was a fiddle, keyboards, guitar, bass and a big drum set, and the music was all about […]
No Atkins Farms in South Deerfield’s New Plaza
Last night we joined other business people at a Chamber after five event at Dr. Spooky’s Animal museum in Deerfield. In the museum we chatted with Steve Schecterle, who is building a new liquor store and additional retail space in South Deerfield, near Rte 5 & 10. In the cafe, […]
The Science of Magnets and Resveratrol
Last night I read Newsweek’s latest issue, that included two stories about health. The first was about using magnets to cure depression. While this is still in the testing stage, many people have said that after having a plastic wand embedded with powerful magnets waved over parts of their skull, […]
Soma Music Is Like Nothing Else
SOMA fm is what a red lettered sticker says on the back of my car. Nobody ever asks me what that is, but in case you are wondering…it’s an internet radio station run by a guy named Rusty out of his garage in Santa Rosa. But what gorgeous music streams […]
Some Asians Want to Change their Eyes
NorthJersey.com has a nicely reported story on how a “new generation” of Asian-Americans is embracing a cosmetic procedure known as “double-eyelid surgery.” Wired news had this story. “Pioneered in 19th-century Japan, double-eyelid surgery has appealed to Asians by promising to make their eyes larger and more defined. The numbers of […]
What’s In Another Man’s Inbox?
About two months ago, Tom Ricks, at the suggestion of another Washington Post editor, started giving his readers a peek into his inbox. Poynter had this in their ‘About the Job’ section. “In a regular Sunday feature called, simply enough, “Tom Ricks’s Inbox,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter reprints an excerpt […]
The Joys of Christmas Lights on Little Ones
Last night after dinner Kate wanted to bring Nathan out to see the Christmas lights. He had been amazed upon seeing them from the backseat of the car, so we bundled him into the stroller and set off in the inky chilly blackness to find some more lights. It is […]