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It’s a Small World After All

Ever strike up a conversation with a perfect stranger and find out you have a connection that seems impossible to be just a coincidence? Happened...

Happy Birthday, My Love

Happy Birthday, My Love June 12. You know what I was doing three days ago, sixty-two years back? I was in my apartment, right here...

Where Everyone Knows Your Name

I always say life is a sitcom. Well, I think I found my set. Lucky for me, there’s a coffee shop not far from my...

58000

58,000. That’s the population of the cities like Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Bozeman, Montana. Sanford, Florida. It’s also the number of names carved into the Vietnam Veterans...

Unforgettable People

There’s a list I carry in my head. People I’ve seen. People I’ve touched. People I watched on a stage and never forgot. A New...

Becoming a Man

OK. Here I am, a gawky, skinny 15-year-old walking into where he was talking, not nicely, to my mom. There he is, way bigger than...

The Quotes that Shaped Me

I was four years old. My dad was on a gurney, on his way out the door to the hospital after a heart attack. He...

Teacher’s Pet

She was young. She was beautiful. And I, a nine-year-old kid from Flushing, Queens, had a giant crush on her. Mrs. Swenson, my fourth grade...

The Old Man in the Attic Calls Tech Support

My freakin internet connection doesn’t work. To fix that problem my gigantic corporate internet provider sent me a new cellular modem. I had to ask...
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