Yesterday, I wrote a piece about Mitchell Gold, and in it I mention that I ended up getting a chair autographed by both Mitchell AND his dog. Some found that a little unusual. “That’s not the only thing unusual about...
Every Memorial Day, for the last 12 years, I dig up an old copy of a story I wrote on Memorial Day in 2009. It involves a young man I had never met, and who would forever be a total...
Since today is Easter, I find myself thinking of another Easter Sunday I experienced 46 years ago in the spring of 1975. I honestly can’t remember a lot of the details to it. But I was a freshman at Virginia...
EDITOR'S NOTE: Every year, I run a version of this story as a tribute to the men who died fighting on D-Day, including one scared young man who kept his head down, survived the worst days of his life,...
Today would have been my Dad’s 100th birthday. He was quite a character, who taught me how to cook Italian food, a love of music, introduced me to golf, and oh yeah, he taught me to be cheap. Right now...
Since it is a dark, gray day, and Opening Day is later this week, allow me to share a memory. It is of an Opening Day 9 years ago that had me filled with excitement. It later turned to one...