An article about our recent trip to Iran appeared yesterday in Salt Lake City’s Deseret News. So far more than 20 readers have weighed in with a fascinating array of points of view. Reader comments: 8-day Iran tour delighted Y. student ravash 12:48 a.m. Dec. 15, 2008 Bravo. God bless […]
I’m reading early morning reports about the death of newspapers. First I popped onto a column by Jeff Jarvis, who is known for savaging former employers like the now bankrupt Tribune company. Jarvis was a founding editor of the fattest magazine on the newsrack: Entertainment Weekly, which itself is struggling […]
I am heading down to the city this week. On Wednesday I’ll board a Peter Pan coach and head into Manhattan. As I have done for the past 25 years or more, I’ll meet my mother Valerie Hartshorne at a fancy restaurant and afterwords we will proceed to a theater. […]
I think a good alarm system would send you a text message if anything bad was going on at your house. Cindy is shopping for such a system, and it occurs to me that this would be a very quick way of reaching almost anybody. I have read about systems […]
y Last night I got a call from a distressed Cindy. Her house was broken into and thieves stole jewelry, her laptop, her camera and the new HDTV that I brought there just about a month ago. The worst part was seeing that hole…they punched their way in through a […]
Tomorrow I’ll be on WHYN-AM 560 radio at 7:35 am to talk with Brad and Bo about Iran. I can just hear them groaning as we begin, amazed that anyone would want to go there, and how scary it must have been. I expect them to ask me sincerely…”why would […]
We woke up in Holyoke with a lovely white covering to all that we saw out the window. Two giant woodpeckers were gnawing at the suet feeder, and I had to go downstairs to the basement to catch up on email and blog, due to wireless problems. I got a […]
June Kronholz wrote in Thursday’s WSJ about how the country’s big problems have created a new cool place to work….the US Government. Could it be true that today’s brightest stars will be flocking to work for the Obama-led federal government? Well, so far more than 300,000 of the people on […]
Here is a link to a radio show I did yesterday talking about Iran.
Up early today, my favorite time of the day. It’s still dark and I sat downstairs, and got a chance to read Jim Neill’s “Under the Noho Dome,” blog where he said he was losing his blog mojo. Well, no wonder! He writes pages and pages for each update, and […]
This guy was dressing up his son for some sort of parade. Or maybe they just work as a team as a way of collecting pesos. Medellin, Colombia
I like these two paragraphs from a new article I wrote. After a break for tea and cakes, we made our way back to the town square of Aran, where in the shadow of a giant mosque, lit up in bright lime green, we switched back to the comfortable modern […]