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I remember a friend of my sisters who farmed in Arizona laughing when we showed him our rain collecting tank. “With so much rain here, why would you possibly need that?” he laughed. We felt like we were doing ‘the right thing’ but the fact is our east coast water […]
I have been carrying two issues of Wired around in ‘the Abyss’ as my backpack is known, and last night finally got a chance to read the July issue. Among a bunch of fascinating stories was a provocative piece about how Facebook intends to dominate the web and keep Google […]
Aggie Roberts is the Music Man of the Jersey Shore. His ice cream shop on Grand Central Avenue in Lavallette packs them in seven days a week. While serving ice cream treats, a troupe of singers dances and clowns with the crowd for an hour of fun. There’s nothing quite […]
What is it that pulls us to the shore? What is that feeling we seek, which makes us willing to endure traffic jams, exorbitant parking rates, being ordered around by beach attendants and sand in our sandwiches? This. It’s that hard to explain, yet totally real experience of twilight by […]
This morning we watched giraffes lick the hood of our minivan as we drove through the Safari Park at Six Flags, about 40 minutes north of our beach pad in Seaside Heights. The giraffes like the pollen that sticks to car roofs and hoods, and the people inside the cars […]
A soft July evening, perfect for a concert on the beach. This was happening right across from our condo, these guys know tons of great songs and belted it out like they meant it. The waves crash right next to the shore here, making it hard for anyone who wanted […]
What could be more exciting when you’re a little kid who has to go to bed at 7 to stay up way, way really late and go on all the rides you want while the ocean crashes just below? We took two little tykes and one little baby (who slept […]
WOW! That’s how I remember last night’s Green River Festival. It was a beautiful night, with many friends, colleagues, aquaintances and fabulous music, all beneath a gentle summer night that ended with five enormous balloons being filled with hot air, lit up with their firestacks blasting into the nylon billows. […]
Cindy’s excited to be in the thick of the rodeo scene. Here’s the parade in Cheyenne.
Today is my first full day in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the gateway to the West. The city is abuzz because tomorrow is the first day of the Frontier Days Rodeo, the largest outdoor rodeo in the world. This city of approximately 55,000 will swell to nearly 500,000 people during this annual […]
Cindy is out in Cheyenne enjoying an all access pass to the Greatest Rodeo in the US. While she waits for the mighty George Strait to open the big festivities, the tourism folks are taking her on local tours. Here’s a photo she sent of Bison at the Terry Bison […]
It’s been at least five years since I last bought a ticket to the Green River Festival, happening this Saturday on the lawns of Greenfield Community College. I remember this as an important event in the Valley, sort of a marker of summer. But I’ve spent so much time down […]