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I am definitely a minority–I still subscribe to and read two daily newspapers every day. How many people do this? Most people tell me that they never take time to read the national newspaper, though some do catch the references that I may make about a story in the Recorder. […]

Candace Bradbury-Carlin is South Deerfield’s best neighborhood organizer!  She is always coming up with new ways to get people in our not-that-friendly little town together for events, things like suppers, art shows and events. She’s got another event coming up, and I’m happy to be joining some of our other […]

What makes a great weekend? I often have thought about this and I certainly have blogged about this topic before, here is one from 2012.   I am a big post-mortem kind of guy, I like dissecting and analyzing weekends, trips, and visits. I like to go back and talk […]

Revving up at the end of the week: Sometimes it takes me a whole week to feel in the groove, or that I’m getting much of anything done.  I have the same thing happen to me at end of the day.  At the close of business, I inevitably get a […]

Yesterday we had a true mob double header here in fabulous Las Vegas.  First we spent two hours discovering more than anyone could ever possibly need to know about organized crime, those who did the deeds and those who spent their careers capturing the bad guys.  A true smorgasbord of […]

We’ve been here for enough days to really get a sense of what downtown Las Vegas is like….and we’ve seen a lot of this vibrant city with a downtown that’s dramatically different from the famous Strip at the other end of North Las Vegas Boulevard. The hotel where we’re staying, […]

On my way from the airport to downtown Las Vegas, I asked my driver how hot it can get here. “I went to pick up my wife after work at 1 am, and it was 101 degrees!” he said. We are staying at the Downtown Grand Las Vegas, right near […]

I’m heading to Las Vegas tomorrow, joining a group of writers and spending all of our time in downtown Las Vegas, not the famous strip. I’ve only been to this glittering city once, and then I spent the whole time on the strip, attending a trade show and not seeing […]

Sometimes I just love my job, so much that I want to share some of the wonderful images that I get to work with, plus some that I shoot myself. I”m about to depart on Thursday for Las Vegas, and will have plenty of new photos. But here are a […]