When we least expect it, some small gift will show up, presenting itself as a harbinger of better times ahead. In this case, it was a shoe, left shoe, size 10, that made me laugh at my good fortune and, for once, believe my luck may be about to change.What a rotten year it’s been. As months ...
After hunting, reloading and such for 60 years, you get a feel for what works and what sells. Some people’s differences of opinion are based on fact while others are based on hype.While discussing firearms at the club the other day, we all agreed the popularity of cartridges was based on ...
Q. I’m afraid. My mom had breast cancer and died when I was three. I don’t really remember her, except for the stories people tell me that I sometimes think maybe I remember. My aunt raised me. Now she’s been diagnosed with breast cancer. She’s my mom’s sister. My grandma died of ...
The other day I told someone that my big Italian family was going to have a reunion in Dormont Park at the end of July. My friend asked, “Will there be food?”It was hard not to go full-blooded Italian on this dude, slap him upside the head and say, “What are you stupid or ...
That black stick that had fallen across the bike trail turned out not to be a stick, a fact I discovered just in time to lock up my brakes and avoid running over it.The stick was a snake that had stopped to sun itself while crossing the path. I walked my bike backwards about 10 feet, just in ...
His competitive fire and desire pushed Justin Schrader to give baseball one more try – pitch one more season.After seven years away from the game, a successful career at Waynesburg University and a stint with the Washington Wild Things in the distant past, he worked on his body – much of ...
