(767 words)The question caught me by surprise. One of my oldest buddies had made the drive from Pittsburgh to Latrobe to spend the day drinking, joking and generally ditching the world of common responsibilities.So it was pretty much like we’d time traveled back to high school for a day of carefree hookie.Then he asked me […]
• Women age distinctly; men uniformly. As a woman ages, she becomes more individual — her hair color, her laughter, her manner of dress — all put her in sharp relief from other women. All men age the same. We lose hair, gain weight and generally stumble thru life w/ the bewildered expressions of men […]
(587 words)I’m a guy with plenty of time on his hands so I wonder about the passing of time pretty much round the clock.Speaking of clocks, historians say the first one was built in the year 1270. Catching a bus before then must have required infinite patience.It sounds simplistic, but I wonder how they decided […]
• I live in a house with 3 sassy women. I teach a class of undergrads raised to be hyper-sensitive on any number of topics. And I’m under a constant barrage by boneheads eager to engage […]
It’s Romeo & Juliet with one whopper of a difference: Juliet is in Heaven & Romeo’s in Hell. For their love to flourish, she must lower Heaven and he must raise Hell.
Ever wonder how old you’ll be in heaven? If righteous cavemen and women will make the heavenly cut? And, gee, if marriage is so great then how come there’s no Mrs. God? Chris Rodell wonders about stuff like that all the time. He wonders about holidays, occupations, traffic and if refrigerating your deodorant adds zing […]
“Arnold Palmer: Homespun Stories of The King,” is the book CBS sportscaster Jim Nantz says is “the best book anyone’s ever written about Arnold Palmer.” Hear fly-on-the-wall stories about … • How Palmer, a man who could have been pampered in palaces around the planet, never left the shot & beer town where he was […]
In 2076, the sprawling Baby Boom generation is down to one last survivor, one-hundred-and-seventeen-year-old Martin McCrae. The distinction earns McCrae a suite at a New York City museum where contestants pay a small fee to spend fifteen minutes with him as part of an ultimate ghoul pool. If they are in the room when he […]
(683 words)I couldn’t tell whether the stranger was mocking me or we were on the verge of bonding over my breakfast beverage of choice.“You don’t see many grown men who feel secure enough to order one of those in a crowded diner,” he said.We were sitting at the counter in the Youngstown Grille, just up […]
(610 words)My disdain for the Bed & Breakfast option nearly surfaced when the sweet West Virginia proprietor told us she’d had some guests from Pittsburgh the previous week.I almost blurted out, “Oh, and how did they taste?”But I bit my tongue, unnerved by the prospect that our hosts might be biting it later on.I’m not […]
