On an October morning back in 2002 I was driving through Northern Virginia outside of Washington DC when I grew too tired to drive and decided to pull over for a nap at a rest stop. I went to bed late the night before and slept on my buddy Joe’s garage floor in Easton Maryland. […]
Story Time
What I’ve Learned While Homeschooling My Son
By design yesterday’s geography lesson materialized into math. I began class by having my son find a map which included a scale of miles. He chose New York State. I asked him to make a template of the scale with a peice of paper. Instead, he decided to incorporate a digital marker to measure distance […]
Leave Them Kids Alone!
I went to school from 1981 to 1994. Acceptable classroom decorum for teachers at that time was much different than today. Along with yelling and screaming at us, back then some teachers would still put their hands on kids for acting up. We had a few male teachers who were infamous for pulling hair; among […]
How I Got Escorted From Hillary’s Speach By Secret Services
When I was attending college in upstate New York in the late 90’s Hillary Clinton was on the carpetbagger campaign trail for the New York Senate. She was due to speak at Plattsburgh State University. I was all geared up for the speech. I had a centerfold from High Times of Bill Clinton with buds […]
New Hair
When I was growing up in the 80’s and early 90’s rockers still had long hair. And I wanted to be a rockstar. So naturally I wanted to have long hair. I grew my hair so I could headbang in the mirror while pretending to be the front man of another God-awful hair band. I […]
Turtle Soup
On a hot spring day in South Florida… I was far enough ahead of the mowing crew that I was out of there sight. I had to take a leak so I decided to stash my weed wacker and explore a trail that caught my attention. We landscaped miles of county road medians so when […]
Killing a Friend
I saw it all in slow motion… Not just once, but over and over again like a reoccurring nightmare. After the first shot she dropped to her knees twitching. “She didn’t feel a thing. It’s just nerves.” As he brandished his .357 magnum over Betty’s head like an executioner my uncle reassured me that the […]
Becoming A Canine Good Citizen
Walking down the street one day with my dog Ginger… I reached my breaking point.