Google has chosen Amherst NH as the Granite State’s eCity. There’s just one problem. Emily Dickinson was born, lived, and died in Amherst, Massachusetts.Let me Google that for you.

At lunch today, I talked with a former professor about some of the issues that he sees with his students. This, by the way, is at Amherst. The students who get in there did so because they knew how to present themselves to their high school teachers and admissions boards. They knew how to win.Many […]

In the early 70s, I worked for McManus’s, an all-night restaurant in Hadley. We had a Metro van that we used for errands around town. The van was an International Metro Mite, painted with the McManus logo. The notation near the driver’s door said that the van’s height was 7′ 00″.One day, I needed to […]