My son, Adam and I are facebooking about the relevance of a third political party. Sure, we both agree they exist, i.e, Green Party, Libertarian Party, etc. It’s their relative importance we explore.
Are they mostly gadflies or perhaps just mayflies*? There seems to be people ever ready to pump up their numbers in order to send Congress [...]
Is this any way to thank someone or say goodbye? It was for my friend, Norman Piersol. It was his signature farewell, and he used it with panache.
Norm was as close to a Saint as any man I’ve met. When not selling life insurance, Norm was an ordinary citizen who did extraordinary volunteer work. While he [...]
Early in my employment at Maxwell’s Hardware, Tommy Trego told me to expect February to be a slow month with the exceptions of selling eggs. I flashed a confused look his way. He told me his church makes nearly 60,000 chocolate peanut butter eggs, and we sell a good number of them. His narrative included how [...]
The local TV news stations ran a story about a visiting Korean man who walked the snowy Philly streets wearing a hat, shorts and boots only. His explanation was he was inspired by the movie, “Bucket List”. Apparently walking in freezing weather as if it were July had worked its way onto his special list of things to [...]