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The Ottawa Adventure

When I was younger, my family didn’t take many vacations because we were a one income family and my father didn’t make good money until he got his electrician license. So there were years that would go by where there was no vacation. I’d go to summer ca...

Breaking Bad with Poker?

One of my favorite shows was Breaking Bad, the curious case of dying chemistry teacher Walter White and his transformation into a methamphetamine kingpin and murderer. While I will not put him on the same level, I’m amazed by the turn of events for Tom G...

Feed the passion and the joy

I fell in love with baseball in 1979. I followed it, without even knowing all the rules or when the...

I’m not volunteering

The local library had its volunteer fair. There are about five or six civic groups in my village an...

Day school times are the ties that bind

Every December, the family goes to Florida for Christmas week. As a kid, I never traveled that week...

It wasn’t brainwashing, it was the gaslighting of the insecure

Brainwashing is the idea that the human mind can be changed or controlled against a person’s ...

Sam Rosen

I don’t recall watching much Rangers hockey on television until Brooklyn got cable in 1989, so I ...

No One Cares What I Got in Latin 3

I was in school from 1976 to 1998 without a break. I always thought that if I stopped, I might neve...

This Too Shall Pass

Now the Presidential election is over, can all those still on the cliff, move back inside? I’m...

TG You’re not Fridays

When I was in college and law school, I loved TGI Fridays. Whenever I was in New York, D.C., Boston...