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A Three Generation Vacation in the Endless Mountains

A Three Generation Vacation in the Endless Mountains

I’m back from a week’s vacation with 20 or so members of my extended family and what a time we had!  I had worried a bit about the old sophomore jinx…could this trip be as fun as last year, when we first came to this gigantic  house on a lake […]

Off to Magic-land, for a Week of Family and no Connections

I’ve been stalling because I’ve got a five-and-a-half hour drive ahead of me. I’ll be taking a course through New York State and then …well I am sworn to secrecy about my destination, so I will not provide those details.  I am meeting the entire family down there, it’s a […]

After Solid Sound, I Advance to the Solid State

I am zipping along here, having made a major improvement to my four-year-old Macbook laptop. Have you ever seen how fast a solid state drive is, compared to the spinning hard drives we find in most computers and laptops? It’s incredible. It’s as fast as an iPad, and nothing needs […]

Notes on the Solid Sound Festival at Mass MOCA on Sunday

Notes on the Solid Sound Festival at Mass MOCA on Sunday

WILCO’s Solid Sound Festival at Mass MOCA in North Adams was a  great day of music, arts and comedy. It was also so popular it felt like all of New York City had jumped on a bus and headed north.  It was  bumper to bumper people, lines snaking out far […]

Bank of America to Close South Deerfield Branch August 16. Bummer!

I moved to my small Massachusetts town in 2000, and brought with me an account at BayBank.  I had my Baybank Card…some of you may remember that quaint jingle.  The BayBank branch in South Deerfield was a busy place, every Friday afternoon migrant workers from Mexico would line up 12 […]

The Taste of Amherst Brings People Together Under the Tents

Last night everyone who was out and about was in a good mood because it wasn’t raining over the Taste of Amherst.  Mary recalled how in its earliest days, Amherst’s food festival took place outside each restaurant’s store front….people stopped by for small tastes of each place, with tables set […]

Taiwans’s Giving Free Wifi to Anyone Who Visits

Taiwan became one of the first countries in the world to offer free wifi on a mass scale to its citizens, and now it is extending that to any foreign tourist, also for free, in a move that will gain it a lot of goodwill.  As someone who is constantly […]

France Random Notes: It’s not free, it’s Free

France Random Notes: It’s not free, it’s Free

Here are some of the things I have noticed in France: Random observations from my ten-day trip in Burgundy, Champagne and Nord-Pas-de-Calais in June 2013. I only saw one old man in a beret.  Benoit, the 34-year-old guide from Pas-de-Calais, laughed when he said, ‘There, a Frenchman in a beret!” […]

Champagne Comes from an Ancient Abbey at Taittinger in Reims

Champagne Comes from an Ancient Abbey at Taittinger in Reims

No visit to Champagne would be complete without spending some time in a cave, and there are hundreds to choose from in Reims, the region’s largest city. After touring the spectacular Palace next to the Cathedral, where we saw the original life-size statues created in the 1500s of kings, popes […]

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