My former co-worker and great friend, Wayne Persing, has retired. Wayne and I worked alongside each other at my old job at First Generation for eleven years. When I arrived, Wayne commandeered the...
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As I remember it, I was driving north on I-287 in New Jersey, going to work, and it was a spectacular day … similar to a couple of the days we had this week … just perfect weather. I was listening to...
In another life I was a cook at a restaurant in Allentown called Murphy’s—a middling restaurant masquerading as a high-class establishment. (I worked in the kitchen. I saw the shady things that...
You read that right, fearless reader. I come to you, mere weeks after Punk Party was released to online booksellers, to ask one last giant favor of anyone who has purchased it, and...
Click! Tap! P.S. The author knows when to use “it’s” and when to use “its.” Honest he does. It just doesn’t appear that way in one particular stitch in this...
It is 5:15AM. Whitehall Pennsylvania is quiet. Snow blankets the ground, as it has for most of the winter. There is no traffic, car or foot. I suppose I might hear the trucks lumbering down MacArthur...
I think I’ve just about got this figured out. If you are a lowly one-man-band, publishing on-line, you must wait until the almighty Amazon (trademark; registration mark; official branding; all...
It is one year since my family lost our mother. Her loss, after an incredibly full and wonderfully lived life, is made even more impactful to me — one year later — by what transpired in the year...
This self-publishing undertaking of mine has been an adventure. I did my research, made a few mistakes, learned a lot about how long the process actually takes, and—shockingly—made a few correct...
January 8. Well, 2021 has had an unfortunate beginning, hasn’t it? In an attempt to bring a bit of fun into an exasperating last couple of days, I have decided not to let the madness in our nation’s...