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Our flight from Boston left on time and all seemed ok until we made our descent down to Ponta Delgada on the island of Sao Miguel in the Azores.  The plane came down and then just as we were about to land swooped back up, because of fog that made […]

The Avalon rides again…happily, I am driving off to Boston/Logan airport in a newly inspected state certified luxury automobile. And for the next year, I shall not speak of buying a new car, I shall be content to drive this one now that it has passed this milestone/hurdle. I am […]

On Twitter, a post alarmed me enough to chase down the source, it was from my traveling bud Johnny Jet. He was Tweeting from ITB Berlin, the world’s largest travel show. Some day, in my post-cafe career, I’ll go to this fantastic huge show and meet thousands of other travel […]

Japan is bracing itself for bad times after scores of the usually rare, giant Oarfish have washed ashore and been caught in coastal fisherman’s nets. Tonight I read this on a news website called Motherboard. “The sightings started after the ‘quake in Chile and the 6.4 magnitude earthquake in Taiwan. […]

Dan Buettner is quietly confident on the screen in a video of a speech he gave at TED, the gathering of genius that’s held each year in California.  He spoke about three areas of the globe where people have been found to live the very longest and where there are the […]

The criminal record of the killer whale named Tilikum, star of SeaWorld, and recently accused of yet another murder of a trainer is long and checkered.  Mike Esterl wrote about the park’s dilemma in today’s WSJ. This is one mean killer whale, now with two murders and one suspicious death […]

One way to solve the jobs problem would be to let people come to the US who can create them. A loosening up of rules to allow more entrepreneur/immigrants to come and settle in the US has been talked about in the Senate and today in the WSJ. Senators John Kerry and […]

It’s almost a spring day in South Deerfield, where the sun is making people smile more than they usually do this time of year.  A woman emerged from the pizza place wearing tiny shorts and a tee shirt. Inspiring! Where I’m going tonight will inevitably be chronicled more than it needs […]

An unexplained angst captured me mid-morning, I tried hard but was not clearly able to identify its source.  Funny how sometimes dread can creep up and you don’t even know why. I do have a trip coming up in a week, and the regular routine is to worry about what […]

I read a thoughtful piece  by Jeffrey Zaslow in yesterday’s WSJ headlined “When Good Deeds Turn Bad,” which chronicled some examples of people who tried to do good but didn’t actually help anyone. In a Peruvian village, an aid group brought in Americans and Europeans who wanted to spend time […]

Last month I got into a dust-up with Tom Vannah, the editor of the Valley Advocate, after I wrote a letter to the editor complaining about the inserts that fall out of their paper each week. He replied to my letter angrily, suggesting that I, as a web publisher, didn’t […]

A film about bomb defusers in Iraq would at first glance appear  to be an action film; indeed, a trailer for another Iraq movie called Brothers at War was just that…exploding Humvees and violent action. But last night’s cinematic triumph, The Hurt Locker, was more about how people relate to […]