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I am constantly amazed at how mad I make people with this blog. Who knew that words I peck here reach so far and wide…but they do. So you will just have to guess which blog got somebody so steamed up I had to remove it. No, don’t try to […]
I went out and bought the ridiculously expensive Sunday NY Times for the cafe. $5.00?! Come on! But inside, as usual, was a bunch of first-rate articles including a feature on why women who make big bucks have such a hard time finding dates. Subtitled “young women discover the pitfalls […]
Saturday morning at the cafe. We went down to the city last night and the deck at the Depot was glorious. It had that soft easy early fall feeling, just the right temp and perfect time to meet my lovely lady for a glass of wine. We’re pleased to have […]
We both felt wobbly Cindy and I, after we read in the WSJ about Professor Randy Pausch,45, and his graceful grip on his exit from this world. Diagnosed with deadly pancreatic cancer, he strode up to the lectern at Carnegie Mellon University to deliver his final thoughts. The last words, […]
Nikki Finke is a toughie and a funny writer. She writes about Hollywood with a scorched keyboard in LA Weekly. She pointed out a new trend in LA that’s bubbling up to the mainstream. “Hollywood is now indulging in a different kind of rehab substitute. It’s intense and round the […]
Popping around the ‘net on Monday night, I met the tasered guy named Andrew Meyer. He was questioning the very boring Sen. John Kerry at a Florida speech and they asked him to leave. He refused and was famously tasered, and of course the videotape is on YouTUbe with the […]
Nicholas Eberstadt writes an op-ed piece in today’s WSJ that highlights a striking problem with man messing around with nature. He weighs in the China’s One Child Policy, that since 1979 has created a juggernaut of population make-up problems and caused something that has never happened before. Now there are […]
Sitting in the cafe on a gorgeous fall day…wishing more people had come in today. Oh well. I read in a column in the Republican by Leonard Pitts…the story began with a horror show and ended with a lesson in how things can change for the better. He describes a […]
The ultimate seafood pasta is made with squid ink and infused with chunks of calimari. We ate this in Portoferraro, our last meal in a ‘housewive’s cafe’ on the enchanting island of Elba. Since I’ve returned I’ve been talking up the place and can’t wait to go on Arthur’s Around […]
David Callaway, the editor in chief of Marketwatch, recalled his early days at the Boston Herald when in 1987, everyone thought that newspapers were endangered–because people would get their news over the fax machine. But as a survivor and a business reporter, he discusses the transition and what it has […]
For a day at the beach, we needed sustenance and for this we turned to this man in a truck who offered rotisserie chickens and fried potatoes in Marciana Marina, on the island of Elba. We drove to the far south and enjoyed a classic beach day, sharing our delicious […]
