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Pittsburgh, You’ve Got Spunk. I Love Spunk

Pittsburgh, You’ve Got Spunk. I Love Spunk

I knew I’d like this city, from the moment I stepped into the Town car that whisked me the 22 minutes from the airport to the Marriot downtown. “I wouldn’t live anywhere else!” said my driver Patrick McArdle. He runs his own art salon in the city, and used to […]

Biking By the Three Rivers in Pittsburgh Today

Last night I had trouble sleeping, since I kept thinking about the plane. What time it was actually departing I hadn’t noted down, so I wasn’t sure when I had to leave for the airport. I fly to Pittsburgh this morning on 11 am flight and at 3:30 pm I […]

A Swimmer’s Journey Ends in Happiness

Yesterday’s New York Times included a story that looked back on the great athletes from the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Among the people profiled was a swimmer who said that she always wanted to be in the Olympics ever since she first felt the water in a pool at […]

Tim Russert Was a Mensch Who Will Be Missed

It’s Sunday morning and Cindy and I sit facing each other on our laptops. We both have thought a lot about the passing of Tim Russert, a man who I met once on Nantucket and found to be charming and fun. We were in the Westender in Madaket, and it […]

Bikeways and Railroads Get Well-Deserved Funds

Bikeways and Railroads Get Well-Deserved Funds

I read two pieces of good news yesterday and today that brighten my spirits. First was a story in the Wall St. Journal that said Amtrak will be given double the funding from previous years, and that Congress has just voted in a lopsided YEA to support spending much more […]

Radio is Much More Fun in Person

It was a nice to get back on the radio today, I got up early to join Advocate editor Tom Vannah on his morning show on WHMP-AM. Usually I do these shows over the phone, but there is something fun about donning the headphones, listening to his cue, following the […]

Instinct, Written in 1973 by Max Hartshorne

Instinct, Written in 1973 by Max Hartshorne

I was clearing out old piles of stuff and found a story that I wrote when I was in ninth grade. I liked it then and I like it now. I’d love to know what you think about it. InstinctThe tires of his Franklin spun along the hot, shimmering road […]

As A Storm Brews Up Men Bellow at the TV

Last night I beheld a spectacular show in the midst of watching the NBA finals. I was in a room with seven men, cheering raucously, in that wonderful let-it-all-hang-out way that only men in a room with no women can be, every point a raft of raised fists, cheers and […]

The Blackout Tells The Story of the Other Side

Last night in the swelter of the heat wave, it was refreshing to watch another heatwave unfold on the TV. Francisco and I watched “Blackout,” a movie about the 2003 power outage and how it unfolded in Brooklyn’s Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood. One telltale scene was when the radio broadcast how […]

Tsunami Wrecks Islands, Then Lower Class Tourists Do The Same

Today’s WSJ has a story datelined Fort Blair, Andaman and Nicobar islands. These islands rang a bell because after the Asian tsunami of 2004, we had to go in and make a lot of changes to the feature story we had up about this destination on GoNOMAD. They were wrecked, […]

Cousin Chris Makes Electricity from the Sun

We’re just back from a family party where the star attraction was a sleek set of photovoltaic cells perched atop a makeshift llama barn. My cousin Chris celebrated his birthday with a gathering of sisters, cousins, uncles and friends, and in the New Jersey June swelter, we ambled amidst the […]

When You Lose Your Latin Workers, the Burmese Step In

Despite the downturn in the economy, there are still many jobs that go begging. That’s why meat packer JBS Swift last year set up a war room with maps showing concentric circles of where people might possibly live who would consider working at the big meat plant. The idea at […]

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