Monthly Archives: May 2020

I’ve never been arrested. I’ve never stole anything, I’ve never done drugs and I don’t commit crimes. So, what’s the problem officer? . . . Snowballs, you say? My first year of college was at Penn State Behrend, the campus in Erie. I didn’t have many ...

I have known from my youth that I have a compulsive, almost obsessive, predilection for throwing snow. I grew up in a small town in NW Pennsylvania where we annually received an average 126 inches of snow (most in PA & 15th most in the US). There was ...

Yesterday, I spent the day uprooting, pulling down, cutting up and disposing two spruce trees on our property. During that time, I felt a bit melancholy, thinking of my hometown in Corry, Pennsylvania and our Annual Christmas Tree burn. In High School ...

When I was in 9th grade, I was smaller than I am now (6’1”) and I was skinny. The coaches did not think I would be much of a football player. So, I was one of the last persons on the team to be outfitted with a uniform. I was given no spikes, a helmet wi ...