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Christmas Cocktail Party a Super Success

Christmas Cocktail Party a Super Success

It’s time for my post-party wrap up and look back. I am very, very happy with how the Christmas Cocktails party worked out for everyone. I sweat and anguish over party details and so often I think that there isn’t enough food, or not enough booze.  The crowd was just […]

A Touching Memory of Christmas Past

A Touching Memory of Christmas Past

It’s a weirdly warm day, balmy and 51 degrees. It’s hardly the type of weather that makes you feel in the Christmas spirit, though it’s still barrelling down at us and will be upon us next Tuesday.  I am excited that after so many years we are having a cocktail […]

Aldi’s Brings Sanity to the Grocery Aisle

Aldi’s Brings Sanity to the Grocery Aisle

I’m breathing in a sigh of relief…I can just feel how much I am saving by switching supermarkets to Aldis!  For the past seven years, I’ve been forced to shop at the most expensive store in the world–Whole Foods.  And Trader Joe’s was the second store, but both are not […]

A Christmas Party? Oh Yes!

A Christmas Party? Oh Yes!

I’m listening to Vince Guaraldi play his signature piano music that goes with the Charlie Brown television specials….old familiar songs played simply on piano with a bass and drum. Nice and spare, and each song languishes just long enough to feel supple and supine at once. We’re planning a Christmas […]

Thanksgiving 2018: At Home with Love

Thanksgiving 2018: At Home with Love

Thanksgiving a day of traditions This year was different than any year I can recall back to 2006.  That’s because we made Thanksgiving dinner and hosted a few family members here with Rachael and her kids.  I had ceded control of the cooking feasting holiday for so many years I […]

I Miss My Truck

I Miss My Truck

Snow is coming.  These days forecasts have gotten so good that when they say 100 percent, yep, we WILL get snow.  So it’s now the week before Thanksgiving, and the radio says we’ll see 4-6 inches, starting around six pm.  My snowblower is securely stowed down at Bill’s farm, wrapped […]

Wallow Takes You to the Farm then to the Sea

Wallow Takes You to the Farm then to the Sea

We had a rendezvous scheduled with a few dozen Oxford Sandy and Black pigs and piglets who live in small Quonset huts on a hillside overlooking the ocean.  Their master is a pair of Guernsey siblings, Nicola Terry and her brother, who together have begun to offer a combination farm […]

Simon Dufty: A Hotelier’s Hotelier

Simon Dufty: A Hotelier’s Hotelier

Simon Dufty looks the part of the perfect Englishman, except that no man from Jersey would ever call himself English.  For 40 years, this impeccable and unflappable gentleman has worked in the hospitality business, and today he manages the delightful Le Fregate Hotel in St Peter Port Guernsey. On the weekends […]

Guernsey: A Delightful Bailiwick Well Worth Exploring

Guernsey: A Delightful Bailiwick Well Worth Exploring

Last night I flew from Gatwick to the Bailiwick of Guernsey, and today I got a chance to tour a bunch of fun places on this 24-square mile island.  Though it’s only five miles long, Guernsey doesn’t feel small…there are many beaches that show off wide swaths of odd-looking rocks […]

World Travel Market Brings Out, Well, The World

World Travel Market Brings Out, Well, The World

I learn so much when I come to London for World Travel Market. There is nothing like it, a convention where every country in the world is actively involved and exhibiting. Just about every US state, too, is represented, and preaching to the 51,000 strong throng and the 5000 exhibitors.  […]

London and Guernsey Are Next Week’s Destinations

London and Guernsey Are Next Week’s Destinations

[wpgmza id=”3″] On Monday night I’ll board a Norwegian Air Shuttle Dreamliner and hit London for World Travel Market at the Excel Center. It’s an overwhelming show with so many people to see I’m sure I won’t see them all. But it’s always fun to be a part of one […]

Jane Trigere: A Force for Good is Gone

Jane Trigere: A Force for Good is Gone

I first met Jane Trigere about 30 years ago, after she and her husband Ken Schoen moved to town from Easthampton in 1994. They bought the old firehouse, and quickly turned it into Ken’s bookstore, filled with tomes relating to Judaica, his specialty.  Jane was very vocal about her opinions […]

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