I decided to take up running after my gym membership expired and I got tired of having to drive to Greenfield every day just to get a work-out. I decided that if I did a short burst, say, 25-30 minutes of running every day it would accomplish much the same […]
I am burning the midnight oil getting ready for something I do every year. I am speaking about travel photography at the New York Times Travel show on Saturday. So I have to prepare my slides and feel reasonably comfortable that I can speak for a 50 minute session. It’s […]
This is an exciting year for tourism in Winnipeg, with two big attractions opening in the summer and fall that will bring thousands more visitors to the city. Besides the tremendous Canadian Human Rights Museum, the new Journey to Churchill at the Assiniboine Park Zoo is going to excite and […]
Don Finkbeiner has a favorite place to take his tour guide clients when they visit Winnipeg. He showed me the Exchange district, the city’s bustling arts and entertainment area, as well as St Boniface, the French-speaking community across the Assiniboine River. He talked of the incredible wealth that came to […]
Want to put a relatively small city on the map forever? Build a $351 million state-of-the-art interactive museum about human rights, and make the building so spectacular that it looks like nothing ever built before. That’s what’s happening in Winnipeg and the big party happens this September. I got a […]
Flying in February 2014 is a tough business, not for the faint of heart. I set out to Bradley hoping to catch an 11:25 am flight to Minneapolis, then another flight to Winnipeg Manitoba. But as the appointed hour grew near they began making announcements about a strange vibration in […]
I was interviewed by the Society of American Travel Writers for their newsletter, and they published it yesterday. It is about how to get published for the first time and includes tips for writers to get editors interested in using their stories. READ INTERVIEW I tried to join this group […]
When two men drove through Northampton last week and fired a bb gun out of their car windows, me and many of my friends were enraged that this could have happened, and hoped that someone would throw the book at them. And just as I had hoped, the long prong […]
In the Recorder today was a sad column, yet it also showed wisdom and honesty, and a sense of reality, not despair. Joshua Freund is a local man with three jobs, and his main point in the column was to show how resilient his generation is. He calls them […]
My rage was shared by many other friends, who read about Sunday’s incident in Northampton when someone fired a BB gun out of a car window and shot holes in windows on 13 buildings from Main to Pleasant Streets. I find this act totally out of character for the city […]
Valentines day always leaves me stumped. It seems like you have a choice–go the typical flowers and candy route, just like everyone else, or spend a little more time and think of something that will really zing her. Unfortunately, all good plans go awry and most people end up at […]
The Ramen Girl: The 2014 film starring Brittany Murphy tells the story of an American woman who moves to Japan and tries to learn how to make ramen noodles.