Today one of my Facebook friends reported that she woke up at 6 am in her home in Cleveland, looked out the window at six inches of snow, then decided to go back to bed. Another friend posted a highway en route to Elmira New York, covered with a white […]
It’s World Series time! I have a mixed relationship with the Big Fall Game, because of the many years that it’s interfered with my birthday celebrations. I remember many years when the game would happen just the night we decided to celebrate my birthday and it would always be interrupted […]
Tonight I really felt like I’d drank the Kool-Aid. I drove 40 minutes down to the mall, and then visited four separate stores only to find that none, NONE of them had the iPhone 5S in stock. I know I’ve been needing a new phone since my model 4’s home […]
Whenever we are having guests for the weekend, I often fall into this funk–there is so much to do, so many things to clean, put away, fix, paint and cover up, that I am lost and don’t know where to start. This is the day, the much anticipated day, when […]
In the third annual Double Take Fringe Festival in Greenfield, once again eclectic and surprising are the orders of the night. This festival creates venues out of an empty bank building, an unused second floor atop Hope and Olive, and in taverns like The Wheelhouse and The Red Door on […]
Sunday was a great example of why sports makes life better and how fun it can be to cheer on a team. Two teams, actually. It was also the timing–a football game that starts at 1 pm on a Sunday is a deal breaker. There’s way too much to do […]
Today was a bit of a whirlwind day, but I guess I got some stuff done. I began with our intern Ali coming in and I set her to work right off continuing her latest project–organizing the 400 or more submissions that have been coming into our submissions email box […]
My friend Harry has made a wonderful life for himself in Sugar Hill Georgia. He’s at the top of his profession in sales, and he’s surrounded by a loving family in a comfortable home. Harry and I went to prep school together in the ’70s, and it’s been four […]
I spent yesterday walking through the convention floor meeting many people who do business with AARP members. It’s an amazing array, from telephones that display text for what someone is saying to Egypt and Panama tourism. Plus a giant booth full of cheerful tourism folks from the great state of […]
Today I’m flying to Atlanta for a three-day conference devoted to those of us who have already reached 50 years of age. It’s the Fall 2o13 Life@50+ National Event of the AARP. You might recognize these people as voting bloc that politicians fear the most–and the people who mail you […]
I am so excited about our town’s newest addition….Mosaic Cafe! Ever since we had to close the GONOMAD Cafe in the center of town, I have been thinking about how much a little village needs a cafe. When Mary began taking a writing workshop at Ruth’s cafe (in the former […]
