The night before was a merry stew. We left Ocean City and cruised to Sea Isle City to roam around some shops, play miniature golf, and then drink it up early at some place called the Dead Dog Saloon. We were there pounding pints quite early in the evening, eating greasy appetizers. Allyson was pregnant, [...]
I was sitting at work in my cubicle when Dana exclaimed “Oh, my god…a plane has hit the World Trade Center!” I heard her straight through the Radiohead that was blasting from my Sony CD Walkman. Dana was a nice lady, but she had a moist and frequent noise snort that drove me nuts, so [...]
Newlyweds in a foreign country, we had engaged in everything else that the Occidental Grand Aruba resort had to offer. We figured it was time to do up a casino, to role the dice a bit. We weren’t gamblers, but we were drunk after hours at the piano bar across the street, where the singer [...]
Dear Mr. Brown, I have been living in the dorms for five semesters. I lived in Schuylkill Hall (the Dog Pound) for two semesters, and in Beck Hall for three semesters. For the first year, the entire on-campus dormitory life was crammed with jolly new friends, recreation, and support from the staff. Now, going into [...]
Saturday, January 6th, 1996. In a post-holiday daze, my good friend Wayne and I decided to go for a road trip and head about 2.5 hours north to Beach Lake, PA to hang with his relatives at his uncle’s house. He hadn’t seen his mom in a while, and she lived in nearby Honesdale. It [...]
In sixth grade, becoming an altar boy was like joining a theatre company, with everyone you knew watching your performance week in and week out. Why sit in the pews with the adults, old folks singing hymns out of key, obstructing your view of the action at the altar? Becoming part of the holy production [...]
I leapt up and caught the Frisbee and then landed in sheer agony. My foot collided on the side of a curb and I twisted my ankle. At first I thought it was nothing, and continued to play Frisbee with Leo in the gravelly parking lot behind our apartment. Ten minutes later, I hobbled into [...]
My First Client
Sure, I had done some freelance work before. I’ve designed web sites for bands and events, but they were all just friends and I was doing it for free. So, I wouldn’t call them “clients” per se. I already had a full time gig, so I wasn’t looking to start my own LLC or anything, [...]