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I thought I should say something, start a conversation, maybe break down a barrier or two. They seemed like nice enough people, chatting among themselves about the harsh weather and, like me, wondering why they’d parked so far away
It takes so little to make a fan for life. It’s a statement I make a few times a year. Sometimes it is said as a compliment; other times it is a criticism. When David Ortiz recently announced that he is retiring after the 2016 baseball season, that statement was not the first thi...
As soon as I saw the crowd of people down there, my heart beat so fast that I was unable to say a single word. W: That's how I feel just thinking about the spelling competition next week. M: I didn't know you made it to the finals. W: I'm worried I'll get nervous an...
” Well, we haven’t heard his voice as much as he has, but the passage of nearly seventy years now has done nothing to make it any less thrilling and soothing and mesmerizing. Johnny Mathis is retiring, but we have stacks of CDs and vinyls to keep him with us till the ticking ...
I usually like to explore a few places when I go to Mexico (or anywhere else). This trip I went to Cabo San Lucas, Leon, Queretaro, Guanajuato and San Miguel de Allende. I have to say I really have enjoyed my time in every place I’ve been to so far in Mexico- but I like the...
Even Jamie Campbell Bower had someexciting things to sayabout season 5. “If you thought last season was nuts, this season is just out of control, wild, like it’s bonkers. It really, really is. It’s bigger. It’s just completely insane,” said Bower. ...
The event took place at the Veterans Memorial building, a large box building, but it had an indoors arena, and flat track racing had become a key part of the show. Although I missed that perfect match between crafted machines and industrial, derelict buildings, I have to say I spent the...
I can tell you right now that it means trouble for me. If he intends to jump back in, he’s not dragging my tired ass back into it. And I’m sure he wants to have all of us do an Ironman again. Nope, not going to happen. I’m retiring from triathlon as soon as that medal...
If you’re at soon-to-shut-down Al Jazeera America, you start a website. From the Street to the Valley Big Bird and Elmo want a piece of that tech action: “Sesame Street” is starting a venture capital arm. Cop’s best friend A retiring Ohio police officer will get to keep...