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On my way to Holyoke last night, I saw a strange big blob of light…then I realized it was a car on fire…and behind it was a nearly mile-long line of headlights. I sent this video to CBS 3 News, I am not sure if it ever made it on […]
I have been exercising at a different Y this week, the one in Greenfield is where I ended up a few nights. What a joy to discover that they have a Wi-Fi signal there. So I popped out my itouch and listened to my Pandora program while on the Elyptical. […]
Last night I watched a sobering and fascinating (like watching a car crash in slow motion) television program on CNBC called “House of Cards.” In two hours, it told the story of how we got into our current credit crisis. Interviews with Alan Greenspan told of the confusing “collateralized Debt […]
Greenfield MA gets a pretty bad rap for its schools. I remember well a friend who worked in the high school and was so miserable he almost gave up teaching. Then he found himself a job at Frontier and has been happier ever since. The school committee makes the news […]
Remember that scene by the pool in The Graduate when they whisper that all important word?“Plastics. ” My new word is “Mobile.” I just helped set up a new website that will show up beautifully on mobile phone or iphone screens as well as on any computer or laptop. Again […]
I’m still thinking about our Travel writing seminar at the Javits Center on Saturday. It was exciting to have an audience of 180 listening to every idea we had about how to break into the travel writing business. I was impressed because many of the people in the audience were […]
Valerie Sophie is just six weeks old. New and barely unwrapped. I used my cute little videocamera called a Vado HD by Creative that’s about the size of a cellphone to shoot her in high definition, and of course, put her on YouTube. Who can resist those tiny little hands? […]
I’ve been getting pats on the back for not sipping anything alcoholic since Dec 29. The best part was last night when after being away four days, my daughter and son-in-law remarked that I looked ‘way less puffy, smaller, like someone took a pin and deflated you.” I never knew […]
Driving home last night on the packed FDR drive in the truck, I tuned into 770 am and heard some startling words from host John Bachelor. He had two experts on from Dow Jones, and they rattled off scary facts that made me shudder. For example, the total dollars held […]
Here’s the gang at the show ready to talk about the website to the crowd. From left, Joe O’Rourke, our seasonal tradeshow vet, Cindy Bigras, Travel Writer, Editor and Paul Shoul, Staff Photographer.
We dutifully forked over another thirty bucks to get the Wi-Fi at the booth, so now I can show you all the tent that we’re using here at the show. Our staff artist Dave Chouinard created some excellent signage, as he does for the cafe and the website, and his […]
We’re in the big Apple for the next three days, meeting friends, reader and advertisers who all know us through GoNOMAD. Last night Kent and I took a long, circituitous taxi ride down to the lower East Side to a bar called Lolita. Packed in like sardines, 20-somethings guzzled drinks, […]