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I am a bit nervous and scattered. That’s because ahead of me is a 4-hour drive to Newark Airport, then a 5:50 pm flight on SAS to Copenhagen. Paul Shoul and I are going on a trip that is billed as “A Thousand Year Odyssey,” it will include the Danish […]
Sean Healy wrote an article for GoNOMAD about Matacanes: Underwater rivers in Mexico. Beautiful photos of swimmers in gorges. “This is one of the least traveled, under-discovered, serene and beautiful places I have ever been. Emerald moss blankets rock and tree; a veritable cornucopia of plant life surrounds us and […]
Allan F. Moore has written a new book about a record that changed the American music landscape. I read a piece about the book in the WSJ a few weeks back. The Beatle’s Sgt Pepper album, which was released in 1967 was and is considered a revolutionary recording. Just before […]
My mom’s very proud of her well cultivated and carefully nurtured gardens. Here she shows Cindy and I this season’s progress.
We’re down in New Jersey visiting my parents in their lovely home in Blawenburg. Mom’s garden is luscious, and in full bloom. One thing I love about visiting here is how many fascinating newspapers and magazines are all around us. I picked up the NY Times Sunday sports magazine and […]
Here is a deck that Kieran Riley built for us–a compact little deck that adds a whole new dimension to hanging out at Nine Mountain Rd. So far the cats manage to squeeze between the rails and the new sliding glass door is solid and rugged. A deck is one […]
The Wall Street Journal is, as Cindy would say, a great source of Blog Fodder. Last night’s editorial page was about a good idea gone bad. A good green idea that just didn’t work out. In 2005, the Nevada legislature decided to go green. So they passed a bill that […]
Douglas McLennan, editor of ArtsJournal.com, pops the Newspaper business right in the kisser with his thoughts on Poynteronline today. “Newspapers started out with enormous advantages going into the digital age (remember “content is King”?) and have squandered it while others innovated. To take even one small example: there isn’t a […]
I read in the Republican today as I gazed out the cafe window. Sunny and bright, and people are full of cheer. I am too, since Brazil’s president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gave the green light to a new plan: Cheap Birth Control for all. “The plan would give […]
A few years ago, an Amherst writer named Dick Teresi came to interview me about a story he was writing for the AARP magazine about RV’ing. I picked up the recent issue of the magazine tonight, and found out that the article ran in the May/June issue. While trying to […]
In the weekend WSJ, there was a story that was short but sweet. It was about the challenges facing the whaling industry. Next week there will be a meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Anchorage. But interest in their products seems to be fading away, moratorium or not. It’s […]
