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Manitoba Legislative Building Is a Treasure Trove of Mason Secrets

Manitoba Legislative Building Is a Treasure Trove of Mason Secrets

Don Finkbeiner has a favorite place to take his tour guide clients when they visit Winnipeg.  He showed me the Exchange district, the city’s bustling arts and entertainment area, as well as St Boniface, the French-speaking community across the Assiniboine River. He talked of the incredible wealth that came to […]

Winnipeg’s Museum for Human Rights Will Be a Magnet for Tourism for Decades

Winnipeg’s Museum for Human Rights Will Be a Magnet for Tourism for Decades

Want to put a relatively small city on the map forever? Build a $351 million state-of-the-art interactive museum about human rights, and make the building so spectacular that it looks like nothing ever built before. That’s what’s happening in Winnipeg and the big party happens this September. I got a […]

Winnipeg, Manitoba Celebrates the Winter with All Manner of Festivities

Winnipeg, Manitoba Celebrates the Winter with All Manner of Festivities

Flying in February 2014 is a tough business, not for the faint of heart. I set out to Bradley hoping to catch an 11:25 am flight to Minneapolis, then another flight to Winnipeg Manitoba. But as the appointed hour grew near they began making announcements about a strange vibration in […]

Speaking to SATW and at the New York Times Travel Show this Month

I was interviewed by the Society of American Travel Writers for their newsletter, and they published it yesterday.  It is about how to get published for the first time and includes tips for writers to get editors interested in using their stories.  READ INTERVIEW I tried to join this group […]

BB Gun Shooters Will be Arrested Soon

When two men drove through Northampton last week and fired a bb gun out of their car windows, me and many of my friends were enraged that this could have happened, and hoped that someone would throw the book at them.  And just as I had hoped, the long prong […]

The O Generation’s Herald Sings

In the Recorder today was a sad column, yet it also showed wisdom and honesty, and a sense of reality, not despair.   Joshua Freund is a local man with three jobs,  and his main point in the column was to show how resilient his generation is. He calls them […]

Shooting BBs Out of Car Windows Crosses the Line

My rage was shared by many other friends, who read about Sunday’s incident in Northampton when someone fired a BB gun out of a car window and shot holes in windows on 13 buildings from Main to Pleasant Streets.  I find this act totally out of character for the city […]

Advice for Your Faraway Valentine

Valentines day always leaves me stumped. It seems like you have a choice–go the typical flowers and candy route, just like everyone else, or spend a little more time and think of something that will really zing her. Unfortunately, all good plans go awry and most people end up at […]

The Ramen Girl Gets Lost in Translation

The Ramen Girl Gets Lost in Translation

The Ramen Girl: The 2014 film starring Brittany Murphy tells the story of an American woman who moves to Japan and tries to learn how to make ramen noodles.

Medical Marijuana Clinic Hopefuls Find out Today

Today’s the big day for about 35 entrepreneurs who have ponied up $30,000 to apply for one of the state’s 35 new medical marijuana licenses. I have a friend who owns a big building who is pretty keen on renting to one of these people, if they get the nod […]

Seattle’s Beacon Food Forest is a Forager’s Dream

Seattle’s Beacon Food Forest is a Forager’s Dream

Even the name makes me smile. A food forest. That’s what’s being created in the exciting city of Seattle  where plans are afoot to turn a 7-acre public plot of land into a forest where people can pick all they want and forage to their heart and stomach’s content. It’s […]

State of the Union? Give Your Workers a Raise!

State of the Union? Give Your Workers a Raise!

We watched the State of the Union, and I thought about what it said and what I thought about our president.  He sure knows how to choke up the crowd, the story of Corey the soldier is a tear jerker.   Big applause, a proud moment for him, sitting next […]

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