Author Archives: Ric
Hot Topic: A gripping goodbye
This debate has been going on for more than a decade. Rin and I were set up and met on a blind date of sorts on Dec. 23, 1999. The two of us went to dinner at a sports bar with my dad and my little sister, who was 8 or 9 years old at […]
Quitting meat — cold turkey
A few years ago, Rin hit me with something from which I’ve never fully recovered. “I think I’m going to be a vegetarian,” she said. I thought it was a phase. My wife who loved cheeseburgers, valued the perfect steak, ate bacon with abandon, demanded ham at Thanksgiving, and indulged in my pork steaks, decided […]
My failure (and a poem)
Something happened this past weekend that I didn’t expect. Despite the buffer of ten years of life and the fact that I have absolutely no direct connection to the devastation of Sept. 11, 2001, I was overcome with emotion. Just like those days ten years ago, I couldn’t pull away from the television. Not because […]