Ric
Hot topic: Appropriate goodbyes for a first date
This week my spouse and I will discuss what we deem to be an appropriate adieu for a successful first date. By successful we mean g-rated good times were had by all. You know you want to see this person again so how do you try to impress them at that all-important last moment? Do […]
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 […]