The Architect I stopped for lunch this day to visit my former brother-in-law Peter Chermayeff and his wife Andrea Petersen at their house in Andover, Massachusetts.  Peter is a noted architect, having designed many of the world’s great aquariums, and has a real eye for design. Peter reinforced a notion that I have always held about […]

Aside from members of my family (who are stuck with me no matter what!) there are two people in this world who have been my friends for 50 years and who still talk to me:  Gibbs Roddy and Jamie Jones.Both these upstanding gentlemen live in Concord, Massachusetts — the town I grew up in — […]

The Cadillac was in reasonably good shape from its travel in a transport — a little “shaken and stirred” but not damaged.There has been a pesky leaky problem with the water pump… Not a show stopper, really, but annoying to have the car dripping water from the water pump shaft while in your friend’s driveway. So as […]

I took off on Saturday morning, flying through Cleveland to arrive at the Providence RI airport and to be pick up by my friend Paul Zangari.  Paul and I go back to about the summer of 1977, when I first started at the CBS all-news radio station in Providence.  Paul continues with a weekly “car talk” radio show […]

Preparing for a five-week road trip has been an exercise in letting go of control — a trait that does not exactly run in my family.  I have found that “letting go” is really an exercise in “trusting others”. I cannot possibly undertake an adventure like this on my own, so here are the folks I […]