I ran a marathon 13 years ago. I say it was just to check the damn thing off my list of things to do, and while I’ve done some crazy stuff since then, it still remains as one of the harder things I finished. For a few reasons – one was that my heart condition [...]

Promise me something on a contract, and then give me crappy work – nothing like promised. Refuse to compromise. And THEN put stipulations around the money already paid to you so in essence you keep the money and we get nothing. Which then has me have to call the credit card company and deal with [...]

My sister left after a weekend visit (first time in 6 years) and I was nearly speechless when she got all teary-eyed when I was dropping her off at the airport. You see, we haven’t really had the best relationship since we were small, so I’m always a bit cautious and not exactly sure how [...]

This is one of the difficulties of being “without child” – your friends get divided up into the ones with, and the ones without. After my best friend had a baby over a year ago, I thought at some point a babysitter would get involved and we could go out like we used to – [...]

I got an email the other day to my business email address from someone who merely said, “Are you initially from New York?” I answered, “Yes. Why do you ask?” And the guy wrote back and said that he had gone to grade school with me and mentioned people from then. Grade school. I was [...]

I found out that my friend Cindy died suddenly, at the age of 50. I had no idea – I was standing in Logan Airport when I got the call, and couldn’t make her funeral which was early the next day. And my last memory of Cindy was of her courage – she had called [...]

The TSA has pulled my carry-on off the belt and are asking who’s bag it is, so of course I claim it, and the woman takes it to a separate table to inspect it. She tells me she’s looking for two large objects, to which I say, “The jam jars?” Yes, those would be the [...]