Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
The interns cleared their schedule for our meeting so we hustled right over. I had been hoping to get some time in front of them ever since we touched down in LA. I understood, though, that they had their priorities. It's been a busy stretch for both of them. He relocated right before the fires, [...]
Twenty years after I procrastinated ordering my Christmas card and thus became the world's most ardent Groundhog Day fan, I got to see a live ceremony. It's hard to say who was more excited about the whole deal, me or Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo. With his thick New Jersey accent, Joe D. introduced Lady [...]
I have been wanting to learn how to play hockey for about 50 years. On Saturday at Jones Park, I finally got the chance. As part of my quest to learn six new sports for my 60th year, I asked two very skilled hockey players I know to teach me how to play — Justin [...]
About a month after I gave up looking for them and a full 12 days after the holiday they were intended to represent, I found my lost bin of perfectly good Christmas lights. Ho ho holy cow! They were right there all along. “Right there” being on an obscure basement shelf along with about 37 [...]
I sent my family members a lovely ornament, which, as it turns out, commemorated our family trip to Kilkenny. Except, none of us, save our almost son in-law Ed, has ever been to Kilkenny, and he went a dozen years ago. Thanks to my creeping farsightedness, I misread the ornament when I ordered it, cheerfully [...]