When it comes to life’s little challenges and annoyances, I tend to see things in black or white. And unfortunately lately there are a lot of things that don’t make sense to me. I call this, the things that make me go hmmm column. You be the judge: --I pulled into Wawa recently. (As I... Continue Reading →

It’s the throwdown to end all throwdowns. In one corner, you have the street-smart bruiser, who worked the streets of Philly and surrounding Southeastern Pennsylvania countryside to become a rock-hard behemoth with fists made of steel and punches as powerful as bolts of lightning. In the other corner, you have the rural up-start who used the hills and mountains of... Continue Reading →

As the writer of a personal blog, I tend to reveal a lot of information about myself. I’ve written about my mother’s Amish roots; my feelings sending my daughter off to college, my obsession about being on time, and even a close-call with depression. Some would say that I’ve revealed too much information about myself.... Continue Reading →

When wave-after-wave of Japanese fighter planes attacked Pearl Harbor a little before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Chief Watertender Peter Tomich was on duty below the USS Utah working in the ship’s boiler room. The ship, moored off Ford Island, suffered significant torpedo damage in the raid and began to capsize. As water started... Continue Reading →

Sometimes you just have to laugh at the world ... and yourself. Where am I going with this? It hit me the other day that the number of things that I don’t get or understand any more are starting to outnumber the things I do. I think I could be turning into a mean, old... Continue Reading →

One hot sticky summer night, two old-timers and a young guy from a nearby factory came into my grocery store line, where I worked as a teenager, and started to complain about the “damn women-libbers” who were trying to take their jobs. They had only a few items and I worked quickly to get them through my... Continue Reading →