This past winter changed my property’s landscape forever. Five pine trees of various shapes and sizes couldn’t stand up to the gale-force winds that blew in with a series of Nor’easters. My chainsaw massatree buddy,…
I hadn’t completed even my 1st semester at college when the Dean of Students paid me an unscheduled visit. Hebinformed me I was being relocated to another dormitory because I posed an unfavorable arson risk…
Throughout my adolescence and continuing through much of my adult life, I’d often go to bed and see this recurrent dream disrupt my sleep; a nightmare actually. I was being chased by some unrecognized assailant.…
Weight Watcher’s, Jenny Craig, NutriSystem, Atkins, Ketogenic – we all know what these are: false hope. Kidding. They’re diet plans. Many of them have worked for many people while others have tried many of these…
A university library represents the pinnacle of literary scholarship and exhaustive research. It’s one of the signature places where minds expand, values are shaped, and causes are born. So, who would have ever guessed on…
Sometime during the 105-day Winter War in Finland, but before the signing of the Moscow Peace Treaty on March 12, 1940, my wife’s mother, Anna-Liisa Kumpulainen, fled for her life; as did just about everyone…