I have experienced some incredible traffic jams. Some of my worst examples: On the way to a Grateful Dead concert (July 4, 1987), my friend Alan, Theresa and I got caught in the mother of all traffic jams. We exited I-95 (about 4 miles from the stadium) 5 hours before show time. We did not […]
My First Book Donation
When I announced the publication of my book (Can Openers:Essays About Life and Love), I promised that I would donate all of the proceeds to Philadelphia area charities. I made my first donation to TE Care, a Chester County non-profit that Theresa and I work with. Details about them can be found at TECare.org. I […]
Spider Webs
I go to a park near our home at least once a week. I take my dog there (or maybe he takes me there, I’m not sure). There is a walking trail about one mile long. There is an ice house on the trail. Ice houses were structures built before the invention of refrigerators. They […]
Radical Hospitality
(I wrote the following blog post for Broad Street Ministry in Philadelphia. They published it on their website at http://www.broadstreethospitality.org/2017/07/10/radical-hospitality/) My wife and I started volunteering at Broad Street Ministry (BSM) a few years ago. The first time I volunteered, I saw a big green sign on the wall that says “Radical Hospitality Practiced Here”. What […]
Strawberry Island
My family and I have an ongoing dialogue about “foods we can live without”. What we mean by this is “what foods could we do without for the rest of our lives, and not miss them?” The foods on this list give me no pleasure at all. It would be ok with me if these […]
Kicking The Can Down The Road
There is an expression in English: “kicking the can down the road”. It means not dealing with something. In other words, if I am “kicking the can down the road”, I am delaying action on something that I should be acting on right now. Another word for this is “procrastination”. Procrastination was one of the […]
My First Book Event!
Join me at Plays and Players Theater on Thursday July 27 at 5:30. Tickets are available at the EventBrite link below. All proceeds go to Broad Street Ministry. I hope to see you there! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/can-openers-essays-about-life-and-love-tickets-35570753080?aff=eac2
Who’s Your Tribe?
There is a fellow I know who asks people “Who’s Your Team?” What he means is “what projects are you working on, and which one is most important right now?” I work in an environment where people work on several projects at the same time. “Who’s Your Team” means that I need to identify the […]
The Luckiest Guy I Know
When Lou Gehrig retired in 1939, he made a speech that included the following words: “Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth”. Watch the speech online. It is one of the most […]
The Advertising Intrusion
When I first started my blog page, I noted (at least temporarily) that my page would be free of advertising. There were a couple of reasons for that. The first reason was that I felt that advertising was unnecessary for my page, and would take away from what I was trying to achieve. The second […]
