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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 […]

I read an interview today in the WSJ with Robert Caro, the historian famous for his super sized collection of books about Lydon Baines Johnson. He told Brian Bolduc a story that revealed a lot about the man who would be president, then decide not to run again. When LBJ […]

Writing is much harder than you’d think it would be. I get this every time I sit down with someone far more technically proficient than me, what I get is that to them, the hardest thing is thinking of what to say. That’s not true for a long-time blogger; our […]

There is a huge movement toward living near railroad stations. Building techniques and quieter trains mean that people are paying top dollar to live right next to the tracks. To ditch one’s car commute seems like the ultimate urban treat. A story in the WSJ today included photos of Collingswood, […]

If I lived in Greenfield, I’d be in the majority of the voters who last night overwhelmingly approved borrowing $24 million to receive matching state funds to build a new $66 million high school. I think that anyone would agree that the existing school wasn’t up to any kind of […]

I often dig down rabbit holes chasing stories getting myself lost in tales of history and current events. I found out today at the NY Times website about a man who was known as the Rip Van Winkle of the Civil War. The piece was written by Albin Kowalewski. Isaac […]

When you die, what happens to the things that keep us all connected while we are living? What happens to someone’s Facebook page, or Twitter account? Who turns that off, who takes care of these details? How many people, I wonder, have left this earth with unread emails that nobody […]

I read on a scurrilous website called Jezebel a story about how a Mexico City park is dealing with dog poop. To encourage people to be vigilant about their collecting and scooping, officials have devised a box with a scale on it. For each dog poop deposited, it measures out […]

Tucked inside a supplement in last week’s Gazette was a fascinating story about what happens to the clothes we don’t want. A photo of bales of compacted used clothing each weighing half a ton was taken at the Salvation Army Donation Center in Springfield. I remember in the market in […]

In my country neighborhood in South Deerfield, we truly appreciate this slow, steady rain. Mostly because I live next to a tilled field, and since it was so warm in March, they plowed it much earlier than usual this year. Our window sills and our deck get caked with the […]