Today I am in the cafe and I’ve reached a conclusion. The farmers in this area are not interested in starting a farmer’s market in South Deerfield. I sent out letters to twenty area farmers, hoping to interest them in setting up a town market on Saturdays. I set up […]
Northampton is the big city to those of us who live in small towns and in the country. So that’s where we always meet, in the big city, and the restaurant that we almost always gravitate to is Pizza Paradiso. Friday night it was cold and windy, and we agreed […]
WOW! I am pumped up after speaking for an hour to a group of 12 Umass students in the cafe. I got a call last week from a professor teaching the journalism course, ‘writing for the web.’ So I agreed to have them come for coffee. Two carloads of assorted […]
Last night I read a fascinating account in the Wall Street Journal that profiled Joe Mamlin, a doctor in Kenya and professor of Medicine at Indiana University. He has developed a practice that addresses a simple but often neglected fact–AIDs patients do much better after they get drugs if they […]
I am having a photo show to celebrate our one-year anniversary for the cafe! We are serving cocktails and inviting our regulars as well as our friends. If you read this, you’re invited to the party! Friday April 6, 7-9 pm.Cocktails, photos, hors d’oeuvresGoNOMAD CafeSouth Deerfield
The Wall Street Journal’s Money section had a piece today that made me laugh out loud. It was Jason Fry’s reasoning for why he’s not ready or interested in the newest ‘all in one’ phone. He makes sense of our confused gadget-laced world. “But the list of devices generally heralded […]
Last night at Bootstrap Farm, our weekend rental, we burned Megargeeville. This was a choice piece of our past, a collection of little boxes we decorated when we were kids to look like a small city. We had the movie theater, the drive-in, the stores and shops that we called […]
It’s ten am on a brilliant Saturday morning, and we’re in the ferry line. How many times I have sat in this line, a hundred different scripts could begin at this setting. The Vineyard holds a special place for me and for my relatives, and today we’re gathering at the […]
Today’s a busy day, and that’s the way I like it. So many comings and goings, and so many balls in the air, I’m back and forth between my two offices, skipping across the puddles of the rapidly melting snow. First task of the day was to organize a mailing […]
Today I got up early to read Editor and Publisher. A story by Joe Strupp discussed how the war is taking a toll on reporters, there are fewer and fewer of them willing to risk IED explosions in Iraq to cover the war. Susan Chira, NY Times foreign editor said […]
Last night, I think I was hoaxed. The joke’s on me, just like thousands of others, who read the post on Boingboing.net about the World’s Most Daring Prank. Cory wrote hey, it might be worth a click, so I did, and ended up spending 45 minutes reading about John Hargrave’s […]
Laurie Ellis is married to my cousin Shady. They live in Arlington and I see him more than I do Laurie. But the one thing I do enjoy about knowing Laurie is knowing about Laurie’s Book Rants. Here is a quote from a review of a Calvin Trillin novel: Oh […]