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I met billionaire Phil Anschutz a few years ago, when I attended the European premier of the CS Lewis movie in Belfast. I remember how the waters parted when the slightly built man entered the reception, and I chatted him up about the next seven movies he’d like to make […]
Reading the NY Times today in the mid April sunlight, I learned about a guy who sounds like the coolest man who ever roamed the earth. His name is Andre…and he holds hip after-parties for artists and other ‘in’ people. He was profiled by a fawning Julia Chapin. “Mr. Saraiva, […]
We had a lazy brunch at a placed called B’Shara’s next to Rte 5 in West Springfield today, and I got a chance to read the NY Times. A story about food aid provided an interesting twist…and in the piece former President Bill Clinton admitted to having ‘never thought of […]
Last night I went again down to the big city. It was time to meet Cindy and some other pals at a bar I’ve never been to, but I’ve always admired: The Dirty Truth. This place was originally built as a Pan Asian joint. But they went out of business, […]
India is a magical place, I’ve been told, but also a place where the Malthusian images of overcrowding can be pretty scary. I found out this morning when I read a story in the Wall St. Journal by Eric Bellman about the crowded and deadly commuter trains of Mumbai. He […]
Today I am working the morning shift at the cafe. The sun struggles to come out, it is still about forty degrees. Ugh. New England is in the midst of a collective sigh. Again. It is fun to pop onto the GoNOMAD blogs and read our travel warriors’ accounts. Sony […]
I read National Geographic Adventure while I waited in my car yesterday, in the crappy gloom that we call New England weather. I found a story about a fourteen-year-old boy from England named Michael Perham who just sailed a 28-foot sailboat called Cheeky Monkey some 3500 miles across the Atlantic. […]
Yesterday’s Daily Hampshire Gazette had a sad story with an unfunny pun for a headline. “Video to Go to Go Away forever,” and told the story of Kitze McCormick, who started the store in 1984, and it’s been her life ever since. She’s closing down and selling all of her […]
Edward Wasserman writes in the Miami Herald about how US newspapers are abandoning Canada. It’s a sad comment on the weakness of journalism here, he says. “Amid all the wailing over the decline of U.S. journalism, word that The Washington Post is shutting its Toronto bureau was barely audible. The […]
I am in the Air France business lounge negotiating this tough little Euro keyboard, my final post of the trip. I feel lucky to have you, my readers following along as I have experienced this lovely country; it makes any new discovery of mine all the more fun because I […]
Today we woke up in Strasbourg and ended up in Colmar, about 30 minutes south. Alsace, we learned from our guide, is a distinctly proud identity. “People here say they are Alsacien first, then French, or in the years during the wars, German.” This territory has changed hands many times, […]
Today we got up early, it was a fitful night’s sleep and these German-style duvets that only cover a single bed leave big gaps where cold air slips in. I glanced at the clock at 4 am, then at 7 got the wake-up call. John Blanchette and I strolled the […]