Back in 1993 I was writing articles for a business magazine in Keene, New Hampshire, and I did one on the Yankee Candle Company in South Deerfield, Massachusetts. Times were tough in the region back then, and we had a full-blown recession, but Mike Kittredge, founder of Yankee Candle, was […]
I am truly a creature of the last century. And I didn’t even really fit into that century because so many of my literary and historical friends came from centuries before that. I loved to learn about my grandparents’ generation and about the Middle Ages and the Ancient World. I […]
This blog is about great reads that can be purchased for 25 cents at flea markets and tag sales. Sometime I cheat and they might cost a buck or even five bucks, but the idea is always the same. Enjoyment. At the same time, every book I blog about can […]
I never spent much time reading Ernest Hemingway, but now I do. I was turned off by the macho image that he seemed to want to project. Until I read his short stories. Then I saw that the author I thought was a macho guy was really a boy who […]
There are a lot of movies that I would never have seen if I didn’t have a daughter that I’m really glad I had the chance to see. Matilda, of course, everyone should see that movie — the combined brilliance of Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman and Roald Dahl. My Girl, […]
This blog is about great reads for a quarter, and I’m sorry I’ve gotten off the track with my trip to Maine. We’re using blogs on our website as a way of recording daily impressions and testing ideas for our stories. But one way of catching up fast in the […]
Can you hear how quiet it is in this picture? It’s six a.m. on the St. George River in Penobscot Bay and we’re going after striped bass with Captain George Harris of Superfly Charters. This guy knows where they live. Even I caught one. But just getting out in the […]
There are three great doctors who had a tremendous influence on my life and that of my fellow baby boomers — Dr. Seuss, Dr. Spock and Dr. T. Barry Brazelton. Doctor Spock wrote the book that my mom used in raising me and my three brothers. He deserves to be […]
What a weekend! My friend George and I drove six hours to Rockland, Maine, for a press tour hosted by Historic Inns of Rockland. On the way up he noticed a growing red ring on his shoulder from a tick bite, and you know what that means — or you […]
I’m a hobbit. I like staying at home and tending my garden. My job is posting stories for GoNOMAD.com about having fun all over the world, but when the oppportunity to travel comes up, I always pass. That trip to Paris — Sony Stark will do a much better job […]