I am a regular obituary reader. I always scan them and most of the time I read the whole thing. I am fascinated by what is written about people once they die. My father is famous for many things; one of them is that he’s already penned and proofread his […]
Up early again for a shift at the cafe. I read the Gazette and found an AP story that was inspiring. Paris has decided to follow the lead of Lyon and install a city-wide network of kiosks for cheap bike rentals. In the months ahead more than 20,600 bikes will […]
“Oh we’re gonna have a wing ding,” sang Donald Fagen,“a summer smoker on the ground,”and thinking about this music makes me think of our Anniversary party. We’re going to celebrate our one-year anniversary of the cafe, and the five year mark for our flagship, GoNOMAD.com. There will be cocktails and […]
In the Scotsman newspaper in Edinburgh, this column was recently published by a woman who is sick of all the nudity she sees in Scotland. “But in addition to the paparazzi shots of scantily clad stars on beaches, and of savvy glamour models who make an annoyingly large income from […]
We walked across a lush green pasture where cows eyed us as we avoided their pies on the trail. The Maori Pa was a fort located in a glen near the banks of a winding stream. Up in the trees, I caught the unblinking eyes of this owl. I shot […]
Maki Kaji is not world famous, but his game sure is. You see, he’s the math wiz behind sudoko, which can be seen every day in more than 600 newspapers and generates more than $250 million a year….but not for him. The NY Times profiled this shy horse-racing fanatic yesterday […]
Two people came into the cafe today, all with new wares for the GoNOMAD Cafe. It is interesting to me being on this side of the fence; for many of my years of working I’ve been the guy with the pitch and the samples. Now I buy the items for […]
Last night I almost missed American Idol. I was watching something even more exciting with lots more drama. It was a special town meeting featuring a room packed with Deerfield voters, all listening to a presentation about joining the Community Preservation Act. Six years ago the town decided that one […]
Sometimes when I go and visit my 20-something son I get a sense of media from his perspective. And this often means watching Comedy Central. This is the channel that young men of his age are most often tuned into, and the other night they had a string of Arab […]
In the LAX terminal I was happy to pick up Sunday’s NY Times style section and read a funny story by Alex Williams about hairstyles in the NBA. She certainly has a way with words describing the silly hairstyles seen on NBA basketball courts. “But perhaps no recent hairstyle says […]
Driving past the grazing cattle on the straight road out of Hawera, we met one of New Zealand’s most creative people, busy in his workshop. Nigel Ogle has been in the business of making lifesize sculptures for 25 years. He has created an entire world within the walls of his […]
This final New Zealand blog is written by a guest blogger, Cindy, aboard Air New Zealand flight NZ6 from Auckland to LAX. During the trip my role has been that of keeping Max organized and on time; there have also been the occasional opportunities to give him a woman’s point […]