Food is sacred to me. Once in Los Angeles many moons ago, my wife and I visited our favorite Thai restaurant (Chan Dara), and requested a...

I do not flirt with strange women, but for some reason they flirt with me. At 72 I figured I have little to offer, but that does not seem...

Europe in 1970 was an idyllic place: It perfectly enumerated the fundamental assessments I learned to apply to temporary housing later in...

People tend to get overly impressed when they find out I’ve made 530 skydives. Consider this: The most intensive portion of the jump...

Never ask me advice on where to spend the night. You’re liable to end up with an ‘E’ ticket ride to hell and back, and I’ll be minus a...

Long before John Belushi popularized rogue students behaving in unusual ways in the movie ‘Animal House’, me and my buds on the 16th...

I bought my first Harley in 1976. It was the key that opened a door into a world that few get to walk through. I was sitting in the local...

In 1955 my father took me to Coney Island to experience the ‘Parachute Jump Ride’. This was a gigantic wooden structure with a cable...

I got my first motorcycle at 16 and my first broken leg three months later. Having a cycle meant I could focus all my energy on learning...

I’ve already written my obituary – it’s a somewhat whimsical glance of the passage of time I’ve seen. Much of it is surrounded by the...

I try to do a good deed daily, and I’m pretty specific in my endeavors. I try to simply make one stranger smile every day. Granted,...

It was the middle of the night and all I saw was confusion. My tentmate was awake and frantically packing his gear. As he started...

I was a semi-professional hitchhiker for many years, and I guess the only thing that stopped me from going full on pro was Charlie...

What price can you place on the moments etched so deeply into your mind by the people who helped make who you are today? It was the...

When I was a kid, spring rains were a treat. The warm gentle pitter patter was refreshing and invigorating, even though neither adjective...

(Author’s note: This is a verbatim transcript from a written journal I kept on a vacation {circa 1982-86}. Aside from a few punctuation...

I am certain most of us have been stuck in a hellish job at some point in our lives. Whether it was the type of work, the people we...

Anyone raised in Northeastern Pennsylvania (NEPA) in the 50’s has at least a passing recognition of the name Russel Bufalino. When I was...

Ric and I were in the 14th hour of trying to shake off some really bad acid. A little strychnine is hallucinogenic, a lot is, well, just...