September 17, 2025
My mother was fond of telling me how much I loved Halloween when I was a little kid. I think I really enjoyed the creativity and […]
September 10, 2025
One of my favorite terms from the world of sports, particularly baseball, is the “walk-off run.” It happens in the last inning for the home team […]
September 3, 2025
A friend sent me an article about how to make the perfect cup of cappuccino. It covered all the usual things, like picking the right beans […]
August 27, 2025
There was a recent article in The Washington Post about a very popular social media influencer who does food reviews from his car, as many popular […]
August 20, 2025
There was a book on my bookshelf at home, J.D. Salinger’s wonderful book Franny and Zooey, that I probably hadn’t read since college. I decided to […]
August 13, 2025
I was in a restaurant the other day that had a long counter, and it’s possible that people were leaving trash in a spot where there […]
August 6, 2025
My mother passed away in August of 2022, and among the things I received from this amazing woman were many books. My mother had these very […]
July 30, 2025
In a wonderful James Thurber cartoon from many years ago, there’s a depiction of a man angrily yelling into his telephone, “Well, if I called the […]
July 23, 2025
One of my favorite stories about Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy’s, who was inspiring in so many ways, is that he dropped out of high […]
