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I drove a snowy road down from Wendell following a snowplow at 20 mph today at 6:20 am, en route to Amtrak, headed for NYC. On the way I got a chance to listen to Monte Bellemonte on WRSI interviewing two UMass students who have created a food garden just […]
Davy Jones, who to many fans was always thought of as the cutest of the Monkees, was an enthusiastic horse rider and horse breeder, I learned on CNN the night that he died. Mickey Dolenz, the drummer of the band, talked at some points with tears in his eyes about […]
The other day I got a call from Woman’s Day magazine, they were looking for budget travel ideas and so I spent a little bit of time thinking of what’s new that I could share with them. “We are looking for ideas for women who might be interested in a […]
Someday you will be able to get Wi-Fi without any log in or passwords. You might have heard about why AT&T was trying to buy the third largest wireless carrier, T-Mobile, and was turned down by regulators. They ended up paying $4 billion to the owner, German Telephone, for backing […]
Yesterday we indulged in a Northampton tradition that stretches back 19 years. On the final Sunday of every February, the Really Big Show channels the ghost of Ed Sullivan and brings jugglers, singers, comedy troupe actors and musicians together for an entertaining afternoon of fun. For the second time in […]
A few years ago I first heard about and attended Podcamp Western Mass. It’s a truly creative day where people who love geeky things get together and share with each other. It’s that chance to finally figure out how to post videos on a blog, or how to sync your […]
We took a different route this week for our accommodations in Pittsburgh to visit Mary’s family. Instead of the Holiday Inn, where room prices were about $189 a night, we choose to rent an apartment for far less. The service is called Airbnb.com, and it matches up people with spare […]
We spent the day in this city of three rivers, in the Shadyside neighborhood where Mary spent her childhood. In our rented one-bedroom apartment, it was nice to decamp and be able to visit Mary’s family and have a place to come home to afterward. Shadyside’s Walnut Street is one […]
We’re en route to faraway Pittsburgh this morning, and I’m up early in Kyle and Maggie’s apartment in Park Slope Brooklyn. The busy street, Fifth Avenue, has hundreds of restaurants, shops and cafes, and last night we had to pop into three different places to find one that would seat […]
It’s a Saturday morning, I’ve already been to the gym, and I’m in that good mood that comes with a view of nothing but vacation ahead. We’re going on a road trip: first to Park Slope, Brooklyn to visit Mary’s son and daughter in law, and then Sunday, a long […]
It was a world premier, and the tears of joy on Linda McInerney’s face as she stood introducing the show in the corner of the Academy stage showed how much this show must mean to her. It was, as she wrote in the program, the culmination of a big effort […]
This week in an an op-ed about Sunday’s riots in Greece by Brian M Carney a particular sentence stood out and made me uneasy. “Almost every traffic light in the vicinity was out, smashed during the overnight vandalism.” This reminds of me of the eery feeling I got when I […]