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The olive trees are dying in Cambil, Spain, and that is bad news for the town. The NY Times published a story by Renwick McLean about the terrible effects of a record breaking freeze and a very long drought. The result has been withered trees producing raisin-sized olives, with many […]
Jack Schafer writes in Slate about the Royal Suck up this week in the Washington Post. “The one Post contributor undeserving of forgiveness is professional Brit Tina Brown, who writes a weekly column for Style. Brown approaches her “royal” subjects with supine kindness, making her piece look like beat sweetener […]
Middle-aged women in Washington seem intrigued by the middle-aged romance. The Guardian UK had the story today.“I don’t care about royalty,” says Linda Cashdan, journalist and director of Washington writing consultancy the Word Process, “but I am fascinated with a guy who is so in love with a woman. In […]
Deleting is difficult. I read this in today’s NY Times. I also enjoyed a new favorite haunt, Northampton Coffee Company, on Pleasant St. It’s always early when I go in, and I get the paper and strong coffee and sit by the window looking out. “When normal deletion methods like […]
Travelmole included this intriguing info today. “Proceeds from in-flight gambling could eventually lead to Ryanair offering free flights for all passengers. The claim reportedly came from the Irish no-frills airline’s chief executive Michael O’Leary as he unveiled plans to offer the use of mobile telephones on board flights by next […]
I met a disguinguished man about my age in New York. He is Joseph Romero, the editor of Culturekiosque.com, a website devoted to international art, music, theater, dance and fine art. He was erudite, but friendly, and he spoke French and English and I’m sure more languages. We dined on […]
I spent yesterday in New York City. I love the smell that wafts around you when you first hit the street. We parked in a Times Square lot and emerged to the heart of it all, Broadway. That scent hits you and you know you’re in the thick of it–where […]
Julia King, 38, is part of an emerging class of women whom marketers call Yoga Mamas. These middle- and upper-income mothers are more style- and brand-conscious than their parents. AOL news has this story today. “No matter their income, they spend like lottery winners on their babies and toddlers. In […]
Back in June I was amazed at this story in Wired about phages, bacteria-eating viruses that could be the answer to antibiotic resistance. The first treatment to use the therapy could be available this year. “Half a century ago, antibiotics revolutionized medicine by turning many once-deadly infections like tuberculosis into […]
Maureen Dowd writes well in today’s NY Times about paying for dinner checks. “After Googling and Bikramming to get ready for a first dinner date, a modern girl will end the evening with the Offering, an insincere bid to help pay the check. “They make like they are heading into […]
Sunday morning and we turned back the clocks, so we get even more out of this sunny fall day. Life is good. I filled out the forms and wrote the check so on Monday I am signing up our three employees at GoNOMAD.com for Blue Cross Health Insurance. This is […]
