Just Don’t Call it Soccer

I like my life. I’ve been pretty lucky to have been born where and when I did. But every now and then, I can’t help but look wistfully to our Eastern neighbors across the Atlantic and think, “I should have been born a European.” I’m not a big sports person. I don’t like basketball, I [...]

Making Strides

On October 24th, I’ll be walking in the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 5k and I’d like your help in reaching my goal: $10 from 100 people. Here’s why: Throughout our lives, we meet and interact with a lot of people: family, friends, co-workers, acquaintances and strangers. Sometimes, if we’re lucky, we [...]

Celebrate Good Times, C’mon!

In the early days of the American Revolution, a ragtag bunch of militia men from Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island took control of a couple of hills surrounding the city of Boston. Upon discovery of this, British troops launched an attack on the wayward colonists on June 17, 1775 and thus gave future [...]