My brother Mike lost the Super Bowl II ring he inherited from my dad, and he's doing everything he can to retrieve it. Of course, he regrets losing such a meaningful piece of memorabilia, but he has no qualms about wearing it. He wore that ring all the time because our dad wore it all [...]
Thanks to my lifelong aversion to shopping and equally long love of a really good story, I now own a pair of the world's most comfortable shoes. And I owe it all to Humans of New York. One day, while waiting for a slowpoke, I sat in my car and idly scrolled. I nearly skipped [...]
My favorite high school teacher died suddenly in her sleep last week, which is shocking and horrible. But, I have to believe she’s in an even better place, because she sure enjoyed the world she left and she’s a spunky spirit. So, if she did not like her new accommodations and did not appreciate being [...]
I always knew my college roommate Teri was destined for great things. While I idly scanned ids at the recreation center to earn college spending money, Teri kept the books for Gimbels, a large department store in Milwaukee. I always marvelled that such a sophisticated store had a 21-year old bookkeeper. She earned an engineering [...]
A little over seven inches of snow and single digit weather might seem like an opportunity for outdoor fun to those of us living in cold weather states. But, what if your city had no plows? And you didn’t own a shovel? Or a four-wheel drive vehicle? And you lost power? Then water? That’s what [...]
