TITANIC TESTICULAR TRAUMA

Posted: April 11, 2019 at 9:49 pm

When Bone and I planned our road trip, we never imagined the day would end with great sheets of skin peeling off my testicles. We were 20-year-old college kids with…

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Baptismis Interruptus

Posted: February 19, 2019 at 9:37 pm

When our daughter was an infant, Carol and I wanted to please our Catholic mothers by arranging our child’s baptism. We made an appointment to see Father Holland at our…

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Three Vignettes From France

Posted: December 5, 2018 at 3:13 pm

Having lived in France a couple of times, and written 200 fish-out-of-water blogs, I thought I’d exhausted my quiver of quirky stories highlighting the differences between Canada and France. Not…

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Miss October 1981

Posted: October 1, 2018 at 9:10 pm

As you may know, my first book, The Next Trapeze, is still looking for a home. In the meantime, I'm helping my friend  Kelly Tough, Playboy's Miss October 1981, write…

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Rip Van Winkle

Posted: September 20, 2018 at 10:01 pm

As the story goes, Rip Van Winkle fell asleep for 20 years and awoke to discover he missed the American Revolution. I felt like Rip last weekend when I visited…

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