I had a girlfriend once. (Surprising, I know!) To say it ended badly would be a bit of an understatement, so I’m not here to dwell on the relationship. However, in talking with a friend today I was reminded of a particular episode from that relationship and I think it’s one that bears repeating and… Continue reading November 19, 2014

There’s a video that was released in the last several days on the Internet that has now gone viral. To look at it you wouldn’t think that it is one that could become so popular. There’s no rapping South Korean, no angry cat, and no cute six-year-old kid singing the national anthem. It’s just a… Continue reading November 14, 2014

There have been many unexpected bonuses that I have been blessed with since moving in with my brother’s family. One of them is discovering that my brother subscribes to a better class of magazines (Time, Entertainment Weekly) than I do (Esquire, Golf Digest). I have a weird quirk when it comes to newspapers and magazines… Continue reading November 11, 2014

When I started working in West Chester, I started working out in West Chester. When I stopped working in West Chester, I tried to stop working out in West Chester. Unfortunately, I was two days too late to cancel my gym membership. The best I could do was put a three month freeze on it.… Continue reading November 7, 2014

Out of 100+ blogs, most of which have a soundtrack attached to them (some more than one song) rarely is the post and the song super tied together. Sometimes I have a song in mind that is connected and the synergy (to use a word I learned 17 years ago when I worked in a… Continue reading November 2, 2014

There has been talk lately here in my brother’s house about a potential new roommate moving in. Just to give everyone a lay of the land, currently (besides myself here in my writer’s garret) we have my brother Mark and his wife Jennifer, and their three sons Jacob (17), Matthew (15) and Joshua (8). There… Continue reading October 31, 2014

If I was Dorothy, and I spent all that time God-knows how many miles from home, traveling with three needy companions, fighting off flying monkeys, melting a witch, getting stuck in an hourglass (not to mention that whole opium thing) trying to get home just in time to see my dumb dog run away so… Continue reading October 27, 2014

I believe I posted this, in its entirety, a while back, but in honor of what a lot of my friends will be doing this next week (and what I won’t be for the first time in five or six years) I thought it was time to reprint a small excerpt from it. ……As the… Continue reading October 24, 2014

My friend Greg makes fun of me for taking all of those random “Who was I in a previous life?” “What 1970’s pop song am I?” “Can we guess your shoe size?” quizzes that populate Facebook. I don’t take it personally. He makes fun of everyone who takes them, and he does it with a… Continue reading October 21, 2014

There’s a lot of talk about the sanctity of the middle class and how it is disappearing these days. As someone who has benefited from its existence greatly, I’m surely in no mood to see it vanish, but the fact is that people have a short memory when it comes to the middle class’s place… Continue reading October 18, 2014