I had a commentary published in this week’s Valley Advocate. Last night as I read various news sites, I thought about how the Rush Limbaugh crowd and others would label me a liberal, cheese-eating surrender monkey for my thoughts about why I think Europe has its priorities better in line […]
Dog sharing was a topic on the front page of yesterday’s WSJ. This topic hit me because my mother and my neice have been sharing a dachshund named Pablo for several months now. Val said it works out very well. They split time in the week about half and half, […]
We watched a film with a few surprises in it tonight. Again, I get the ‘oh Max’ groan, after choosing an unknown Netflix film that just happened to contain homosexual sex. Well, I do admit I wanted one scene with these two men in bed to end faster than it […]
We went to a party tonight at John and Andrea’s in Florence where many familiar faces were seen. I made everyone give a toast to our friend Paul Shoul who is recovering in a Boston hospital. Best wishes Paul, we hope to see you back in Western Mass very soon!
Last night my friend Joe emailed me asking what I was doing Friday night. My one-word answer said it all: Tanglewood. That’s all I needed to say, since anyone who has been there on a golden summer evening knows exactly what it’s all about. Cindy and I joined our friends […]
Today I had to contact Sharp Electronics, the makers of our cafe’s cash register. After I was finished getting soaked for a simple new plastic cash drawer, to the tune of about $100, I perused their website, and discovered that Sharp is a big player in solar electricity. That got […]
Today the heat has mostly passed, and we have a little break from the pounding rain. I’m in my favorite window seat at the cafe, and just finished a quick read–Tuesday’s Daily Hampshire Gazette. On page one was a story about a guy I’ve met before (but can’t recall where!) […]
Tom Devine is a blogger’s blogger. He posts more frequently than anyone I know, and it’s all usually interesting. Today I read on his blog about one of his few experiences having heterosexual sex. “One thing led to another, and soon we were kissing, hugging, our hands and mouths going […]
Gerard Baker had fun in the UK’s Times online with this biblical account of Obama’s world tour this week. “And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores […]
I caught up with a woman today who told me a year ago that she was launching a new website and a home-based business. I hear ideas like this so many times that I usually expect them to languish and never come to fruition. But this one was different–and the […]
Every day I read the papers and scan the web for news about airlines and airport parking for my other blog. But yesterday, sadly, I got word that someone else would be taking it over. So I’ll no longer write that blog, even though I still enjoy finding tidbits about […]
Last month’s Wired magazine cover made a case for accepting nuclear power if we are to ever really battle global climate change. I got up early this morning and read an op-ed in the WSJ by William Tucker that made more of the same very valid points. It’s time for […]