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Junkyard Planet Tells the Story of Scrap Recycling Around the World

Junkyard Planet Tells the Story of Scrap Recycling Around the World

I’ve been enjoying reading a book I heard about after someone left a comment on Facebook.  It’s Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade, and was written by Adam Minter, who has a particularly relevant background for his topic.  Minter grew up in a family of scrap dealers, and […]

Lunch Pals and Breakfast Buddies Fight Loneliness

Lunch Pals and Breakfast Buddies Fight Loneliness

I read an interesting and slightly depressing report today in the Boston Globe.  It said that the number one cause of early death among middle-aged men was not cancer, nor heart disease…but loneliness.  WOW.  This correlates with another survey where thousands of men were interviewed over a period of 75 […]

Hey Nineteen Plays the Songs of Steely Dan at the Iron Horse

Hey Nineteen Plays the Songs of Steely Dan at the Iron Horse

A few years ago, I remember coming back from a really fun evening of music at the Shea, where the Dead Collective played the familiar songs of the Grateful Dead.  It was comforting and enjoyable to know the songs, and they chose the true standards, which was even better.  I […]

When In Doubt, Bake a Pie

When In Doubt, Bake a Pie

I am amazed sometimes at how easy it used to be to write a daily blog. I would naturally have so much to share, so many things I’ve just read that I’m eager to share, or a comment someone made, or a place that I’m going.  It’s harder now, maybe […]

CityBiking from Williamsburg to Downtown Brooklyn

CityBiking from Williamsburg to Downtown Brooklyn

I had a highlight of my recent stay in downtown Brooklyn, Citybiking. I met a friend up in Williamsburg, and after a most excellent lunch at Aurora, we walked around and checked out the funky shops, huge condo developments, and hand-painted billboards, up close. I walked a mile or so […]

This Is Not Your Father’s Porn

I read an article about the pornography industry that indicated that the profits are getting smaller and smaller as the business faces the same headwinds that affected the music business. The business is down…way, way down, from the lofty heights before the tubes. And the tubes are what is draining […]

Brooklyn Is My Next Stop

Brooklyn Is My Next Stop

I am looking forward to a short little trip on Sunday, to the nation’s fifth largest city….Brooklyn, New York.  I’ll be staying at the Marriott Brooklyn Bridge, between the Heights and Williamsburg, for two nights. I’ve enjoyed visiting the Park Slope neighborhood a few times, and every time I’m there […]

Aloft and Element Hotels, In Boston’s Seaport

Aloft and Element Hotels, In Boston’s Seaport

We’re enjoying a February vacation city break at a great and relatively new hotel, the Element Seaport Boston.  Up on the sixth floor, we’ve got a suite with a full kitchen and a comfy living room. Unfortunately, the only view out the big window is of the vast parking lot. […]

Larry Kelley Was the Voice of Amherst

Larry Kelley Was the Voice of Amherst

The voice of Amherst has been silenced.  Ironically, the car accident on Amherst Road that killed veteran blogger, Larry Kelley, 62, was the kind of thing he would have covered on his wildly popular blog, Only in the Republic of Amherst. Larry died Friday afternoon, and many, many people have […]

Welcome to a Wireless World,Whether You Like it or Not!

Now I can type on my phone with a real keyboard. wow. I just plugged my iPhone into a Bluetooth keyboard. Cool! I can post blogs with this…i can bring this on a trip with me and leave my laptop at home. Can I?  Ok, well to test this out, […]

Kate and Jon and their Families Get Married

Kate and Jon and their Families Get Married

What an exciting day for our family!   My daughter Kate got married to Jon Sliva, and just about all of us got a chance to toast her on her wedding day, right in her own house. Kate and Jon began combining their households months ago, but on Saturday, Feb […]

The Deerfield Planning Board’s Long Night

The Deerfield Planning Board’s Long Night

We are installing a new TV but it’s not ready yet. So I sought out some interesting entertainment by attending a Deerfield Planning Board meeting at Town Hall tonight. On the agenda was a hotly contested 72-unit condo development on Sugarloaf St, a medical marijuana dispensary hoping to convert a […]

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