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I have a familiar feeling of a combination of dread and anticipation because tomorrow morning I’ll catch a flight from Boston to Atlanta. Then after a layover, I’ll fly to Quito Ecuador, and at 10 pm Tuesday night I’ll be in a new country, one that I’ve never visited before. […]

I’ve made a tradition of attending the downtown Amherst Block party, and last night we kept it going, meeting up with family and friends at those round tables they park in the middle of North Pleasant St. I am very fond of events that involve blocking out cars, since I […]

Every day I delve into another place.  As I comb through my vast inbox full of travel stories, I go to wherever the story is located.  Today I enjoyed a lunch with enough good wine to make me sleepy rural  Alfarnatejo Spain, where Inka Piegsa-Quischotte took a food tour.  It’s […]

I think I’ve discovered a secret to happiness in life.  Get those little things done that you keep putting off that ultimately will make you miserable if you don’t deal with them.  I had a few of those today, first I brought my car in for inspection and was shocked […]

There is probably no name that struck more terror in me as a kid growing up than Paul Ehrlich. He was the biologist who wrote the book that freaked me out more than any other–The Population Bomb. In a review in the WSJ, a new book details a famous bet […]

I am fascinated by the vast infrastructure that’s required to keep a railroad running. And I’m especially excited by the coming Amtrak service that will blow through South Deerfield while making new station stops in Holyoke, Northampton and Greenfield. The other day I was having a soft-serv at Hillside Creamery, […]

I met a tall man at a party last night named Tyler. He was with his partner, and I heard them say that they lived in JP. Jamaica Plain, Mass. She’s a short pretty woman named Leah who is a nurse. I asked him what he did for a living […]

It’s that time of year. Our annual camping trip to and undisclosed location in central Mass. I think I’d get in trouble if I revealed this wonderful place, so you have to imagine it. There is no car parking where we camp, that’s nice because you use carts to haul […]