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James Irwin answered a question to a post on Reddit.com a few years ago. It would change his life. The question, explained in a story in Wired Magazine asked how a group of US Marines would do if they were taken back to ancient Rome and had to do battle […]
There is no substitute for visiting someone and talking to them face to face. I often think about this after a satisfying lunch meeting, or a few drinks with a friend, or a romantic rendezvous with my partner. That despite all of our interconnectedness, despite now much we get to […]
After a bruising fight during the past year against Amazon, officials from Macy’s realized they needed more warehouses to ship their on-line purchases from. Then it hit them. They’ve got 800 buildings, far more than Amazon will ever have, so why not use them? Now a new move to build […]
As the Greeks protest austerity and elect representatives who will push back against Germany and put their heads in the sand, once again, things look pretty grim for the European economy. Yet Americans still want to take vacations in Europe, how could they not? It’s still full of reasons to […]
This morning I was happy to wake up in the rain and learn something from my friend Fred Lepide’s wonderful website. One of his entries was about a long-ago episode in espionage, when the USS Pueblo, a spy ship, was captured by the North Koreans and the crew was held […]
What could be more fun to mock than the defeated former president of the Confederacy dressed up in women’s clothes? Back in 1865, this scenario played itself out when Jeffferson Davis, fleeing from arrest by the Union army, grabbed his wife’s petticoat in haste and dashed out the door. What […]
For travel writers, the next place they’re going is the next best thing. And to many of us, going some place that few haver ever been to, or even heard of, is even better. I got a package in the mail on Friday, it was a book about a place […]
During his days building up what would eventually make him Vermont’s richest man, Robert Stiller’s employees used to have an expression to explain how things needed to be done. CBS was how it went, ” ’cause Bob Says,” was what it stood for. Stiller today was in the WSJ after […]
I think we’re making pretty good progress as a society. I say this today after reading a Boston Globe article declaring that the era of the trophy wife has passed, men no longer want to put the young lithe stay-at-home women on their arm and women are becoming far more […]
Random bits from what’s going on in my universe include a book called Íf You Can’t Make It Here, GET OUT, a tough love guide to New York City Living. This book will be excerpted on GoNOMAD. I was quite cheered when I heard that our Italy ebook is selling […]
Pam Victor of Pelham takes comedy pretty seriously. In fact she says that her form of comedy, the unscripted theater , is what’s in vogue with improv makers around the US. She’s coming with The Ha-Ha’s to Greenfield’s Arts Block on Friday night, the first time a comedy show has […]
For the past seven years I’ve lived with a family consisting of two small children and two adults. In the morning when I get up, the sounds of the youngsters playing, fighting or screeching for their mom was what woke me up. Even though I am now ready to see […]