| | | Exercise is a great tool for keeping one fit and healthy, and I must admit that I don't get enough of it. But I am still fairly active. Weather permitting, I play golf most days, and I will soon be in the great outdoors hunting the elusive whitetail deer.
Winter traditionally has been a bad season for me.
Full Story Recently I read with some interest an article about a concern in Colorado that has plans to convert manure from cattle into methane gas to power a cheese factory and several other businesses. I think it would be a splendid idea, but why stop there? Why not proceed to Washington, bottle all the bull crap produced there, and we would have enough energy to power the country?
Full Story Hey, kids! It's time for costume advice with Crazy Uncle Seth! ... Now, there's no need to shout. I realize last time I told everyone to dress up in costumes it was apparently Columbus Day, and nobody else was celebrating.
Well, this is different. This is Halloween, a day when wearing funny costumes not only won't get people asking what's wrong with you, but also might get you free food!
Full Story As she lay dying, my mother surprised us by opening her brilliant blue eyes, weakly waving her hand at us and mouthing the words, "Bye-bye." After the days she had been unresponsive, it was a deathbed gift we'll always treasure. But the best gift is the one Mom made at least 10 years before her death: her health care proxy.
Full Story One of my favorite business maxims is: "Don't just do things right. Do the right things."
I remember coming across that quote on one of my dad's note pads when I was a teenager. At the time, he was under contract with General Motors to provide its upper management with a corporate history to supposedly help guide them back onto the path of success.
Full Story Hi. I'm Johnnie Carrier, a simple man who woke up from a three-day drunk 23 years ago, only to find that he was living in this fair city of North Adams.
Once I kicked the sauce, I found it to be a lovely place with a rich and historical manufacturing background that dates back to the start of an Industrial Revolution that modernized and changed America forever.
Full Story I don't always keep up with the news, but I hear that lately the big story is about a big balloon filled with hot air. And I don't mean Rush Limbaugh.
No, the "balloon boy" story seems to have taken over the media for the past week or so, and you know the story has been well covered when even I have heard about it.
Full Story Finally! We have one brave soul who has the courage and fortitude to go against the party line for the betterment of the country. I am speaking of Olympia Snowe, the senator from Maine, who has the boldness to break from the conventional party-first mentality that pervades the Senate of the United States and vote for much needed health care reform.
Full Story If this column doesn't turn out so great, you can blame it on my wife. She asked me what I intended to write about this week while she plastered a thick layer of peanut butter on her English muffin, and I brashly quipped, "I'll think of something. I can write about anything."
"Oh yeah?
Full Story In countless cities and towns in America, former industrial municipalities have turned to tourism and the arts to rejuvenate their communities. Almost all of these efforts have failed.
If you want to have a tourist destination, you need something truly special, such as the quaint town of Stockbridge or the excitement of Orlando, Fla.
Full Story North Adams needs a creative strategy to tackle the important issues of economic development and job creation. In order for North Adams to properly capitalize on the national and global exposure Mass MoCA has provided, a cutting-edge Web presence needs to be created.
Articles in Time magazine, The New York Times and The Washington Post are read by tens of thousands of people whose access
Full Story Today is the last day of Sukkot, the Jewish holiday sometimes called the Feast of Booths. With a name like that, you'd think that it should be celebrated by all piling into a diner, three on a side at a small table with bench seating. But instead it's quite the opposite.
Jews tend to celebrate Sukkot by shaking lulav branches and spending time in booths called Sukkahs with partial roofs.
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I understand that people like to waste their time, and in this era of gadgetry, opportunities for doing so are not only more frequent than a decade ago but also easier -- a mere tap of your finger away, actually.
One of the big selling points of the iPhone and iPod Touch is the App Store, an online store that allows users to download tiny and inexpensive computer
Full Story The ROPES program and the Berkshire Chamber of Commerce's Fall Foliage Committee are to be commended for their collective efforts to bring people to North Adams' Main Street this past Saturday for various activities and events. Their joint efforts are an example of the type of collaborations that our city will need to foster in order to revitalize our downtown.
Full Story As President Nixon would say, "I want to make one thing absolutely clear." I love the World Olympics as well as anyone, and it would be great to have them held in this country, but for our president to be traipsing off to Europe in an attempt to influence the World Olympics Committee is a shameful act.
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