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Jim Schinneller did not request to run a photo of the back of his head with his death notice in Sunday’s paper. Jim, a retired University of Wisconsin art professor, died at home Sept. 9 at age 81. It was an aneurysm. He went fast. The Journal Sentinel in Milwaukee’s […]

Patrick O’Connor of the Recorder published an article about an exciting plan we are hatching for downtown South Deerfield. The story also ran in the Daily Hampshire Gazette this morning. SOUTH DEERFIELD – A local businessman wants to bring a farmers market to town. ”I want to celebrate the fact […]

Today we’re introducing something new on the GoNOMAD home page. I’ve hired Joshu, a local webmaster, to help me introduce feeds on our front page. So that each of our eight blogs that are linked there will show the titles of most recent posts. That way our front page is […]

The Guardian had a story about rejection in China.“The surgical team claims the operation was a success. After 10 days, tests revealed the organ had a rich blood supply and the man was able to urinate normally. He had a transplanted penis.In 2001, surgeons were forced to amputate the world’s […]

Carl Hiaasen is not only a novelist, he’s a columnist for the Miami Herald. This controversial column about reporters being fired for writing for Radio & TV Marti ran today. “Over the last five years, while staff reporter Pablo Alfonso wrote columns and covered Cuba for El Nuevo Herald, he […]

I picked up a copy of the Princeton newspaper called US1, and found a story about a woman who is making a huge impact in her native Ghana by opening a new factory to produce a product for the US. Emelia Etse, known as Nana, grew up in Africa and […]

Cindy, my father Nat and I went into Princeton today. It was a shining, clear September day, and people were out in force. We passed a children’s book author’s show in front of the library. Under a tent were dozens of writers with their books displayed in front, and crowds […]

Janis Turk writes with eloquence and empathy about her beloved New Orleans in a new story on GoNOMAD.com. As she says, ‘attention must be paid,” and this piece really says it well. “It was once said of James Dean that he had an “insufficient hopefulness” — a phrase that often […]

On TV tonight was the story about Sony vs. JVC. It was “Modern Marvels,” and this episode was about the technology of the 1980s. They had Steve Wozniak, who put 10 million bucks into the US festival, which was a rock show with a sideshow of geeky stuff to gawk […]

I spend a lot of time reading travel magazines and found a story in Budget Travel about 25 unknown places in Europe. Andrew Appleyard, international sales manager of Exodus, a U.K.-based tour company writes about Erice in Sicily. “Waves of conquerors–from Phoenicians to Normans, and everyone in between–have left their […]

Paul Shoul checked in from Boise, Idaho by email, and as usual he was exhuberant. Our favorite shooter tracked down the local celebrity who promised to show him all of Boise’s places and secrets within the first two hours of his arrival. I’m sure his story will be a lot […]

Paul Raffaele is an adventurer’s adventurer. He recently went to New Guinea far up river to meet with some of the world’s last cannibals, and wrote about it in Smithsonian Magazine. “Korowai children with beads about their necks come running to point and giggle as I stagger into the village—several […]