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Stokin’ the Star Makin Machinery at the Cafe
Jacylyn Stevenson is one of our favorite writers who is writing a feature about blogging for Business West Magazine. I was happy to speak with her again, she wrote a detailed story about the GoNOMAD travel website when we moved into our first office in town in 2004. I told […]
Breathe….Plenty of Room to Breathe in the Cafe
The cafe expansion is expanding people’s minds as our physical space has grown. It feels like now you can come inside and stretch your hands out by your sides and not still not feel crowded. Space, it seems, is good. I visited with my friends, brothers Darren and Sean Pierce, […]
The Wows Have it in the Expanded Cafe
Even though I didn’t hit the pillow until about 2 am, it was up, up, up even before little early riser Nathan (but after his dad Francisco who plowed out of the driveway at 5:24 am)to return to the cafe. I was groggy but excited. I was excited the way […]
My God, it’s ALMOST time for Coffee Again
Here I sit, it’s 12:51 am, and we’re FINALLY finished (almost) renovating the cafe. Jim Taylor, my project manager, has gone home with Barry, his able-bodied assistant, Joe trundled off to bed after a long battle finally won reconnecting the internet…Liz finished her mopping and putting away around 12:15, and […]
I Bet This Guy Wishes He Spoke French
The Nigerian Times had a story about the value of speaking more than one language tonight. “A fast-thinking pilot, with the help of passengers, fooled a gunman who had hijacked a jetliner flying from Africa to the Canary Islands, braking hard upon landing then quickly accelerating to knock the man […]
"I Got People" is an Excellent Ad Campaign
Joe O’Rourke and I used to enjoy reading Bob Garfield’s ad reviews in Advertising Age when we both worked in ad sales at the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Here is Garfield’s review of a new ad campaign. “Millions of Americans are intimidated or overwhelmed by this annual [tax prep] chore, and […]
You Can Do a Lot with 12-foot Ceilings
Progress, progress, the cafe is moving ahead and we can’t wait to show it all off on Tuesday. Last night I joined about 70 of my neighbors at a fundraiser on Crestview Drive. This is a wide street with underground utility wires (the mark of a high rent district) located […]
Building a College in Kabul
Johannes Brongers wants to help. So he’s going to Afghanistan to do his job in a far less tranquil environment. In June, he leaves with his wife Janet to live in Kabul and help run the American University in Afghanistan. There are only 58 students now, they hope to expand […]
Snake River Canyon, Idaho
I was pleased to read a draft of new GoNOMAD blogger Paul Shoul’s story about his trip to Boise. I was even more pleased when I saw his collection of photos, which, as usual, are stunning and fit right in with his text. Shoul understands the tone and tenor of […]
Sore Feet are Proof of a Hard Day’s Work
Tonight as I sit here in my big chair my feet ache. I’ve been working very hard at the cafe all day, and we’ve got encouraging results to show for our labors. This morning, as the wind whipped the snow around, I hired a young man from the neighborhood named […]
Porn Pop-Ups Explode a Conn. Classroom
Julie Amero has lived a computer pop-up nightmare. Now she’s been convicted of unwittingly exposing her students to pornography after a storm of sexual images flooded the screen in a classroom computer. You can imagine how it must have felt, not being able to stop the awful pictures one, another, […]