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They Come to the Cafe in Escalades…and Priuses Too

They Come to the Cafe in Escalades…and Priuses Too

We have a new favorite customer at the cafe. She arrived yesterday morning, by shiny, black Cadillac Escalade. She came in wearing an expensive coat that contrasted with her long blond hair, and was followed by her driver/bodyguard, a big burly Indian wearing a bluetooth earpiece and a suit. We […]

Mygazines: Good Idea, Too Bad It’s Illegal

Mygazines was a cool idea, offering free articles from a huge selection of magazines. How can they do this without getting sued? I wrote about this a few months ago, wondering the same thing. It was an incredible site, offering digital pages that turned and so many articles to read, […]

Joseph Strysko, Bowler, Square Dancer

I often think of what the world will be like when all of the veterans and war heroes die. Our society and the little town I live in are full of these guys, many of whom are still married to the woman they met three or four or even five […]

The Places We Live Bring Tough Lives Closer

The Places We Live Bring Tough Lives Closer

Yesterday I stumbled upon one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time on the web. It was a site called “the Places We Live,”by Jonas Bendiksen, an art project that tells the first-person stories of people who live in some of the most crowded and dangerous cities […]

Philly’s Phamous Phans Get Ratted Out by SMS

I know a guy named Chet who is from Philly, and he is a rapid Eagles fan. It’s pronounced ‘Iigles,’ and he had that famous Philly accent that sounds a little like a Delaware or Maryland accent. I read today in the WSJ about how this city is combatting its […]

A Man Pedaled by, Alone on a Bike Built For Two

After the cafe closed, I walked the sidewalk and sat for a spell at our outdoor tables. Birds chirped and I savored the crispness of the late fall approaching evening. I sat and scanned the common, and the v of the two streets across the way. Then a man came […]

On the Cobblestoned Streets of Portland, Memories

Nostalgia rained over me yesterday as I retraced the steps of my callow youth. On our way back from Southport Island we stopped by Portland’s Munjoy Hill neighborhood where Kathryn and I lived from 1981-83. I drove around the gentrified area, glistening in the fall sunlight and full of colorful […]

The Real Lobstermen in Boothbay Harbor Maine

We plucked five 11-year-old lobsters from big green tanks at this lobster pound in Boothbay Harbor, Maine this morning. News reports say that the prices are too low, less than $3 per pound wholesale, and the lobstermen are suffering because people think of this food as something only for celebrations. […]

Nothing Makes Me More Mad Than Traffic Jams

Nothing Makes Me More Mad Than Traffic Jams

On Friday afternoon when I told my cafe staff that I was heading up to Maine tonight, they looked at me funny. Yeah, why WOULD I plan on driving nearly five hours starting at 6 pm on a Friday night? Well, because that’s when we can go, and our dear […]

The Odds n Ends, Ins and Outs of the Business

It’s a day in the life….some of the interesting things I did today… *Negotiated a deal to once again exhibit at the New York Times Travel Show. Had to redo what we promised the show promoters, but all is good and the contract will be signed shortly. Nice to know […]

What Makes Her Wealthy is Doing Good

Again and again, we read about the terrible calamity and the $7 trillion in asset value that’s been lost in the stock market. It’s comforting, though to read about how much worse it was in 1929. Karen Blumenthal wrote yesterday in the WSJ about how back then, banks eagerly loaned […]

Palin as President? The GOP Blew It With This Choice

Thomas Friedman summed up the most convincing argument against voting Republican in November in his NY Times column. I’d love to hear Larry and the rest of those who identify as conservatives answer this question. How can they do it? “How in the world can conservative commentators write with a […]

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