Nina Simone Dies I still remember first hearing Nina Simone. Jim was a big fan and sang Gin House Blues in the group we were playing in at the time, The Mendicants. Somehow, I’ll always relate her to listening to Del Ray play piano at the bar at the Williams Inn, too.

Three Conversion Stories Well-Told in the Secular Press After yesterday’s post and its implicit criticism of the secular press — at least in its coverage of religious matters — comes this story in The Telegraph. Al McKeon does a very nice, sensitive job looking at the confirmation Saturday in the Catholic Church of three Nashua […]

The Pope’s Newest Encyclical Letter “Ecclesia de Eucharistia” Appropriate reading as we prepare for Easter. It’s been covered in the secular media, but in remarkably negative terms … mostly missing the point of the letter and misunderstanding the theology behind it.

TelegraphOnline.com Picks Up Two Awards in New England Associated Press News Executives Association 2003 Web Site Contest Yahoo! Wish it could have been three, but this is good news for yours truly nevertheless!

It Adds Up (and Up, and Up) This article in the New York Times tech section details how much greater a chunk of the family budget gets spent on connectivity than 20 years ago: One family pays “$225 a month for services that enable them to watch television, make phone calls and communicate over the […]

Fishermen Ready? Stocking Trucks Ready to Roll! Ahhh! That fine time of year when the ice is off the rivers and the trout are rising to the flies … or at least willing to take a swipe at a slowly fished muddler minnow. Fish and Game says it’s putting some big fish in the river […]

Note to self: Do not bring babies on relaxing spa weekend trips Yes, our trip to Plymouth and our stay at the Common Man Inn was quite nice, but not quite the respite that one hopes for when one gets away to the “spa” for the weekend. Now, it was not because the Inn was […]

Ahhhh, Raindrop Therapy, The Manliest of all Massages Got back yesterday afternoon from the The Common Man Inn and Spa, where Kristen, David and I had gone to work on a piece for the magazine (which will appear in the June issue). What a fun place! It has a sort of theme park experience without […]

Ernesto Unfair to Celine Dion Fans? No, but judging by the 10-minute screed left on my voicemail this morning, at least one person out there thinks I am. I’ll explain. At the end of a recent column for The Telegraph’s Encore magazine about the LAUNCHcast personal internet music service, I mentioned that you can X […]

I must be out of my blogging mind… Ernie has been very worked up about this blog today, so I figured I’d better get on the ball and post something quickly. See how he tried to lure me in with the cool kid analogy? Well, it kind of worked. I don’t have a whole heck […]