Mark Umphrey was my fraternity brother at Phi Gamma Psi at the University of Lowell. While I hadn’t seem Mark in quite some time, I was terribly saddened to attend his wake this past Friday. Later that evening we toasted Mark with good friends and sake and shared memories of the Ump.
Cold sake and mountain biking are two of my favorite things to do. On the surface they seem like total opposite ends of the leisure spectrum. Sake is best consumed in a relaxed environment with food and friends. It’s very social and the high alcohol content means you don’t generally want to be moving at […]
Rockport Massachusetts is on the tip of Cape Anne, a rocky peninsula 30 miles northeast of Boston. Cape Anne was settled in 1624 and was the 3rd colony in New England, just after Plymouth and Nantasket. Just west of Rockport on Cape Anne is the fishing town of Gloucester. The movie The Perfect Storm was […]
As I was driving to my next meeting in Toronto I stopped at my favorite cigar place in the entire world. For cigar fans Frank Correnti Cigars on King St is the place. I discovered them while living in Toronto in 2000 (I don’t know where Sam the shoe shine man from the Westin is […]
The last place I expected to get good sake was on the Danforth in Toronto. More commonly known as “Greektown”, this stretch of midtown Toronto has the highest density of Greek restaurants in North America. After an amazing dinner on a warm summer evening with my colleague Pete and two clients, we stopped at an […]
