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Everyone has been talking about the newest restaurant in Hadley. It’s called Pulse Cafe, and it’s located where the bison farm used to be, in the big field across from Hadley Garden Center where all the Steve Lewis Subarus are parked. Yep, that one, the one that’s been under construction […]

Almost every week I meet a friend or two and have a long lunch.  I discover so many of the best new restaurants this way, and my friends always agree to wherever I want to dine.  I feel like that is owed to me after a shift working alone in […]

Today, I talked on the phone with my regular correspondents. Every day at 12:30 pm it’s my job to call my parents, Bumpy and Vally. I have to check to make sure that she’s taken her Parkinson’s medicine and so a regular caller am I. It’s one of the most […]

This is one of those topics I’m not wild about sharing, but it’s kind of a big deal so share I must.  I last spoke to my blog readers about this in November last year when I had a check-up that went well and all was ok.  Now the area […]

I was pleasantly surprised yesterday evening when a traditionally goofy penny-ante poker game staged each year at Thanksgiving became a full-on, challenging, normal-stakes poker game.  What a treat! It’s hard, for some reason, to get people to play poker. There is only a certain type of man or woman who […]

Why do I travel?  Tonight, the answer couldn’t be clearer. Tonight, I am so aware of exactly why, and it’s given me an exhilaration and excitement about my upcoming trip. I’ve been sick and in bed way more than I ever have in the past two weeks, but now I’m […]

I can’t remember a time when I felt more energized and happy to be back in my office working.  I think it has to do with the contrast from the previous few weeks when I was laid up with that leg infection. Everything I tried to do was awful, so […]

I had lunch with Martin Booth, the editor of the Bristol news, arts and lifestyle magazine B/247 today at a fish and chips joint called Salt and Malt.  Nice simple food, well done and gluten-free batter. I asked him what a few of the topics were that people are talking […]

I spent today wandering around two seaside towns on the southern coast of England.  I took my time, absorbed the local history, and met local shop keeps and others who shared a bit about Seaton and Sidmouth. My original plan to walk ten miles on the Southwest Coast Path was […]