The Blind Date From Hell (pt2)

    The Blind Date From Hell (pt2)

    I pulled up to Becky’s place in my Mustang and lightly tapped the horn, as she’d asked me to do.  I waited.  And waited.  The house wasn’t in the best part of town which should have tipped me off right there but I’m an eternal optimist. I...
    The Blind Date From Hell (pt1)

    The Blind Date From Hell (pt1)

    It was the summer of ’91 and the first time in my life since I’d began dating that I found myself alone.  I just came off an engagement break-up and had met a girl at college who went home for the summer.  She would eventually become my first wife seven...
    The Picky Eater

    The Picky Eater

    For 37 years now, I have been an extremely picky eater.  I can’t help it, it’s just who I am.  I won’t eat certain foods for the stupidest reasons.  What reasons?  You wouldn’t believe me if I told you. Of course, I’ll try.  And maybe...
    The Jew and the Bacon

    The Jew and the Bacon

    BLT – hold the L and T I have two bosses, a 49-yr old Korean woman and an 86-yr old Jewish man.  The woman is the caring, motherly type that treats me like another son.  The old man is a codgy bugger who built a couple million-dollar companies up from scratch...
    That Time of the Year

    That Time of the Year

    It’s here, it’s finally here!  I never thought it would come but now it has.  Dove Season officially opened in North Carolina on Labor Day!! Yep, you heard me.  It’s now legal to go out and shoot those pesky doves that are always eating up the...