My parents get two newspapers every day at their New Jersey home. One of them is the Trenton Times, which publishes Thomas Friedman’s column, as does the NY Times, their second newspaper. I read him today and as usual, agree with what he has to say. It’s about the Narrative…a […]
We staggered out of the theater in Davis Square this afternoon after seeing Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze’s brilliant adaptation of the Maurice Sendak children’s classic. The emotion that he’s able to squeeze out of 20-foot-high characters in elaborate costumes and CGI faces took our breath away. Those […]
Just last week we were enjoying long, long days as the southern hemisphere moved into its summer. More than once we would be having dinner at 8 or 9 o’clock and the striking light outside made us swear that it was about 5. Today as I sit in Holyoke and […]
Mount Aspiring is up there in the clouds, this is the glacier as seen from down on the river. Unlike the glaciers up north, this is not actually in danger of melting away, we were told that every year it gets bigger in the winter and smaller in the summer, […]
We love New Zealand like an adopted son, but there is one little thing that we also love and miss terribly during our time here. That would be our seamless, fast, cheap and always reliable web connections in the US. People here actually pay for bandwidth…yes, that’s right nobody knows […]
We took a stunningly scenic drive down to Manapouri from Queenstown and en route bought the Otago Daily Times, ‘the voice of the south.’ A front page story was about an Auckland woman whose 14-month-old son mistakenly locked her in a closet and she had to endure seven hours while […]
I got a lot of good advice for hotel owners today, in a meeting of travel bloggers and tweeters. The question was posed, ‘who are some great examples of companies who ‘get’ social media in 2009? Elliot Ng, a founder of the large content site UpTake.com, brought up a few […]
My late night ambitions have been proven weak lately. I’ve contemplated going out on weekend nights, but have found reasons to stay in. Last night we dined in Northampton with another couple who at 9:45 were eager to get over to the Iron Horse for a 10 pm show. No […]
Why does Google have such power over us? Well, how about getting an email like this, where they multiply what they are giving you by eight, and automatically adjust your account with their bonus….wow! Google storage update: More space for your photos and email Hi, We wanted to let you […]
Last night I watched the much awaited season-ender of Mad Men, and I relished every one of the 48 or so minutes of this show set in 1963. While all of the cigarette-smoking cast who sip brown liquid all day long kept in 1960s character, one scene was especially poignant […]
When I was traveling down to New York on Sunday, a man on the subway suddenly sneezed–he yelled in a high-pitched wail as he did so–so loud that the entire car looked over at him with shock. It was funny, such a loud noise popping out of someone all of […]
