All this hype about swine flu has me thinking about traveling to Mexico. Now is a great time to go! Airfare is cheap and once you arrive you’re treated like royalty. Poor Mexico. First tourists got scared by the drug warfare and thousands of murders. Now there’s swine flu keeping Americans away. The first time I considered going to Mexico…
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Denise Cerreta in More magazine
Sexy Brooke Shields, 43, is on the cover of the May issue of More magazine but my girl Denise Cerreta is on page 77 looking just as gorgeous! Here’s a teaser from the first page of the article: “No prices. No menu. No waste. Denise Cerreta gave up her successful acupuncture practice to open a pay-what-you-want restaurant that helps feed…
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New York, New York, Big City of Dreams
New York New York Big city of dreams Everything in New York Ain’t always what it seems But don’t be fooled if you come from out of town I’m down by law And I know my way around Too much. Too many people. Ut uh, ut ut ut ut ut, ut uh… I’ve never seen so many people in one…
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A Region Uncorked
I have a feature article in Oregon Business Magazine called “A Region Uncorked” about the growing success of the Southern Oregon wine industry. The small town of Talent would not, at first blush, seem like a place where the southern Oregon wine industry would thrive. But it is. Beautiful and verdant back roads As I explain in my article, storage…
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In Praise of the Big Apple (Hostel)
“When I think hostels I think rats and cockroaches, ew,” my friend Marjorie said when I suggested we organize a writers’ weekend in New York City and stay at a hostel, where we could rent all the beds in two different rooms. Rats and cockroaches? Ut uh. Though that writers’ weekend never got off the ground, I’m staying at the…
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More on Dickens
Awhile back I made a resolution to read everything Charles Dickens ever wrote. Recently a literary agent said to me, “The Sopranos is the new Dickens.” Charles Dickens used to write for magazines in installments. He had a loyal near-cult following, readers who would wait for the next chapter in the next edition of the magazine, like many people today…
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