Archive for the 'Thoughts for the day' Category

December 27th, 2009

Wine Tourism and the Use of Social Media: Better for Business

A few days ago, I came across some notes from the EWBC, the European Wine Bloggers Conference, that I had attended this past autumn in Lisbon. During one of the sessions, I had begun to write down some random thoughts and responses to what participants were saying. I reread them now, and realized that some […]


December 13th, 2009

Writings in Copenhagen at the COP-15

Another cold day in the city of the Little Mermaid (whom I have yet to see). Unfortunately, despite careful planning, the bike ride event we had planned for early this afternoon was not the success that we would have wanted. In fact, it was no success at all. There is so much going on around […]


December 4th, 2009

Home Grown in Brooklyn

This urban garden is doing more than just growing vegetables and herbs. Some local Brooklyn folks have banded together to collect street leaves, diverting them from landfills and converting them to “good fertile soil.” They turned an empty lot, destined for new condos, into a community garden, for veggies and flowers, even combating Guiliani to […]


November 3rd, 2009

Trip to Lisbon - final impressions

After 48 hours of mulling, having returned to Madrid from my whirlwind trip to Lisbon to attend the II European Wine Bloggers Conference. My first thought is how much I regret not having stayed on there in these past two days to enjoy the trips to the wineries, such as Quinta do Vallado, the stay […]


September 2nd, 2008

Summer review: A Sea Change

Many of us have been enjoying our holidays in the sun and near the sea, or ocean. Swimming, sailing, water skiing, fishing, or just watching the sunset. We love and admire the expanse of water; we also know it to be essential to our lives and to the life of the planet.
Unfortunately, just as we […]