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Last night at Bootstrap Farm, our weekend rental, we burned Megargeeville. This was a choice piece of our past, a collection of little boxes we decorated when we were kids to look like a small city. We had the movie theater, the drive-in, the stores and shops that we called […]
It’s ten am on a brilliant Saturday morning, and we’re in the ferry line. How many times I have sat in this line, a hundred different scripts could begin at this setting. The Vineyard holds a special place for me and for my relatives, and today we’re gathering at the […]
Today’s a busy day, and that’s the way I like it. So many comings and goings, and so many balls in the air, I’m back and forth between my two offices, skipping across the puddles of the rapidly melting snow. First task of the day was to organize a mailing […]
“Oh we’re gonna have a wing ding,” sang Donald Fagen,“a summer smoker on the ground,”and thinking about this music makes me think of our Anniversary party. We’re going to celebrate our one-year anniversary of the cafe, and the five year mark for our flagship, GoNOMAD.com. There will be cocktails and […]
In the Scotsman newspaper in Edinburgh, this column was recently published by a woman who is sick of all the nudity she sees in Scotland. “But in addition to the paparazzi shots of scantily clad stars on beaches, and of savvy glamour models who make an annoyingly large income from […]
We walked across a lush green pasture where cows eyed us as we avoided their pies on the trail. The Maori Pa was a fort located in a glen near the banks of a winding stream. Up in the trees, I caught the unblinking eyes of this owl. I shot […]
Maki Kaji is not world famous, but his game sure is. You see, he’s the math wiz behind sudoko, which can be seen every day in more than 600 newspapers and generates more than $250 million a year….but not for him. The NY Times profiled this shy horse-racing fanatic yesterday […]
Two people came into the cafe today, all with new wares for the GoNOMAD Cafe. It is interesting to me being on this side of the fence; for many of my years of working I’ve been the guy with the pitch and the samples. Now I buy the items for […]
Last night I almost missed American Idol. I was watching something even more exciting with lots more drama. It was a special town meeting featuring a room packed with Deerfield voters, all listening to a presentation about joining the Community Preservation Act. Six years ago the town decided that one […]
Today I got up early to read Editor and Publisher. A story by Joe Strupp discussed how the war is taking a toll on reporters, there are fewer and fewer of them willing to risk IED explosions in Iraq to cover the war. Susan Chira, NY Times foreign editor said […]
Last night, I think I was hoaxed. The joke’s on me, just like thousands of others, who read the post on Boingboing.net about the World’s Most Daring Prank. Cory wrote hey, it might be worth a click, so I did, and ended up spending 45 minutes reading about John Hargrave’s […]
Laurie Ellis is married to my cousin Shady. They live in Arlington and I see him more than I do Laurie. But the one thing I do enjoy about knowing Laurie is knowing about Laurie’s Book Rants. Here is a quote from a review of a Calvin Trillin novel: Oh […]