Ahhhh the blog. Did you ever wonder how I write so many of these things? Well….you’ve gotta be excited about the content…and that I usually am. I really am interested in the details behind things. So today I found a story in the WSJ about the French election. It’s a […]
I am blogging from the street, outside the GoNOMAD Cafe. The temps are sort of warm, not embracing, yet the sun is shining. I had a moment of solidarity today, corresponding with Sean Keener of Bootsnall about a type of ad that was proposed to run on our site. They’re […]
Troy McCullough writes in the Baltimore Sun about a new magazine for an unlikely audience. “An old-fashioned trade publication for bloggers? Seriously? The new Blogger & Podcaster magazine – “for aspiring new media titans” – has met with a tepid response from a lot of those titans. Some were sure […]
A favorite customer of ours at the cafe named Tim drops by his copy of the Aircraft Owners and Pilot’s Association magazine, called the AOPA Pilot. I have always been intrigued with flying and with aircraft, so I gave it a skim. Very light jets are the new buzzword in […]
Today’s another Monday at the cafe…full of people working and our new electrician Dave busy down in the musty cellar. He’s installing a big new 220 volt circuit to accommodate….drum roll please…our New Huge Deluxe Cappuccino maker. Tomorrow Marco from Sacuzzo Coffee, of West Hartford, will arrive with the behemoth […]
Today I’m again behind the counter at the cafe…but that’s a good thing. Business has really taken off this week, I think it might have to do with the new neon OPEN sign as well as the nicer weather and of course, our great sandwiches! But it is inspiring to […]
Reading the NY Times today in the mid April sunlight, I learned about a guy who sounds like the coolest man who ever roamed the earth. His name is Andre…and he holds hip after-parties for artists and other ‘in’ people. He was profiled by a fawning Julia Chapin. “Mr. Saraiva, […]
Last night I went again down to the big city. It was time to meet Cindy and some other pals at a bar I’ve never been to, but I’ve always admired: The Dirty Truth. This place was originally built as a Pan Asian joint. But they went out of business, […]
Today I am working the morning shift at the cafe. The sun struggles to come out, it is still about forty degrees. Ugh. New England is in the midst of a collective sigh. Again. It is fun to pop onto the GoNOMAD blogs and read our travel warriors’ accounts. Sony […]
I read National Geographic Adventure while I waited in my car yesterday, in the crappy gloom that we call New England weather. I found a story about a fourteen-year-old boy from England named Michael Perham who just sailed a 28-foot sailboat called Cheeky Monkey some 3500 miles across the Atlantic. […]
Yesterday’s Daily Hampshire Gazette had a sad story with an unfunny pun for a headline. “Video to Go to Go Away forever,” and told the story of Kitze McCormick, who started the store in 1984, and it’s been her life ever since. She’s closing down and selling all of her […]
Edward Wasserman writes in the Miami Herald about how US newspapers are abandoning Canada. It’s a sad comment on the weakness of journalism here, he says. “Amid all the wailing over the decline of U.S. journalism, word that The Washington Post is shutting its Toronto bureau was barely audible. The […]