Russelnod.com

Anyway, why russel nod? It’s Don Lesser backwards, more or less. The best anagram of my name is nerd loses and that seems a little too close to the bone.

I’ve been writing and cooking for 40 years now. Grew up in NYC, moved to Buffalo, then Cambridge, and then Amherst and the Pioneer Valley in western Mass. Lived here for nearly 30 years. It is a beautiful part of the world, but jobs are hard to find so I started my own companies. I had come to Amherst to get an M.F.A. in Fiction (which I did) and got interested in computers, pre-PC & Mac. Became a technical writer, then trainer, and now owner of a small technical company.

Following the dictum, Shop locally, cook globally, I’ve been exploring the Pioneer Valley for regional treats, whether home grown, home made or simply imported. Lucky to have two columns for the local paper that let me write what I want.

Feel free to write me at donl at russelnod dot com (you know how to fix this).