Matthew Rose wrote a piece about fighting bamboo in today’s WSJ. Had me laughing outloud as I sat on a stool at the cafe watching cars drive by in the cold. The story follows the many ways people try to foil the bamboo plant. Specifically, the running bamboo that is […]
Cindy once told me the reason she wanted to buy a digital camera. You see before you the reason, it’s in her very organized closet. An enviably organized woman who has no equal in her quest to keep everything in order. I love it! (And her!)
It is the first day of spring but it’s still not even forty degrees. Last night we had dinner with friends in Holyoke and one of them told us that she heard a TV report that 2008 would be the year of another great depression. That’s with a d, not […]
Yesterday my friend Jack took me to see four houses that are on the market here in our neighborhood. It was instructional, and it came after I told Jack and his wife Laura about my grandiose scheme to build a huge addition onto our little house on Mountain Road in […]
Funny how when some people come to visit, I finally get out and do some of the things I really enjoy. Like go see a movie in a theater. Sam is visiting, so we went to an evening show of Persepolis, an animated movie in French about an Iranian girl.The […]
Tonight as I dined on salad with roast chicken with my son in law Francisco, he told me about a terrible moment on Saturday night as he flew from Miami to Hartford on a Southwest Airlines flight. “I’ve never said that to myself before,” he said excitedly. “I actually thought […]
Today from Reuters came a tale of animal wisdom from one of my favorite places in the world. “Moko the dolphin, a regular visitor to the coast of Mahia on the east Coast of New Zealand’s North Island, became an instant hero after leading two pygmy whales that had repeatedly […]
In Hatfield, there used to be a pizza shop called Mama Maria’s. The owner was in the Daily Hampshire Gazette yesterday after being charged with holding a poker game and wielding a knife when some of the players broke his rules. It was a simple and fair arrangement. They’d play […]
Here is part of an AP story from a while back about how students have to find sources of light to read to study for exams. “CONAKRY, Guinea – The sun has set in one of the world’s poorest nations and as the floodlights come on at G’bessi International Airport, […]
Last night we had a battle of the sexes. We are visiting Kent and Lisa and after Kent prepared a lovely dinner for Dennis and Denise and Cindy and I, we took out their new 2008 edition of Trivial Pursuit. This new game has all new questions and some of […]
Today is a gorgeous New England Day, still brisk but the sun pelts down and tries to cheer us up. I was on the phone today with a guy from SF who said he was underneath a lemon tree. With computer problems leaving us one machine short, I headed to […]
