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 […]
The Mazel Tov Guy
I wish my friends “Mazel Tov” a lot. “Mazel Tov” is a Yiddish phrase, derived from the Hebrew words mazel (fortune) and tov (good). The expression means “good luck”. It also means congratulations. Think about that for a second. The expression actually means two things. It means congratulations for what has already happened, and good […]
Waiting For The Playoffs…..
The Philadelphia Phillies were last in the playoffs in 2011. That year, they lost in the National League Divisional Series. That was 6 years ago. The Philadelphia Flyers were last in the playoffs in 2016. They lost in the first round. Before that, they were in the playoffs in 2014, when they lost in the […]
Don’t Be Disruptive
A movie that I want to watch is going to be released in a streaming format next week. I am going to watch it as soon as it is released. I might watch it on my TV. Or maybe on my home computer or a laptop. I might even watch part of it on my […]
I Would Like To Speak To Customer Service
My family was waiting at the gate for a flight a few months ago in Europe. An airline representative made an announcement in the local language, and all of the local people left their seats and started to walk away quickly. I walked up to the airline representative, and she said that the flight had […]
Get To Work
When I was in my 20’s and 30’s, I used to think “I can’t wait until I retire”. I have an uncle who is in his late 80’s. He is my accountant. Every year I visit him for our annual income tax appointment, and every year I ask him when he is going to retire. […]
Where Does The Time Go?
I attended a mini high school reunion yesterday. I once belonged to a high school fraternity (it’s complicated). I had not seen some of these fellows in 40 years. I stay in active contact with two of them, and occasional contact with two others. I had not seen the rest in four decades. These men […]
