Stories of Suspense with a Sense of Humor
Tax season was a little rough for me this year. I got it all done but it’s not a chore I relish. I try not to think about it all year which means I scramble to find this piece of paper or that, so I’d be better off if I had a weekly habit of … Read more
My wife, who is retired from the work force, tends to stay up late. Most nights, I stay up later than I should through sympathetic response. Like when you drive past people outside an ice cream store licking a cone, and decide you’d like ice cream; or maybe you see someone robbing a bank and … Read more
The Sunday before last, as I drove to pickleball in the morning, my car slid on some ice and hit another car. It was something of a perfect storm as the car I hit was a commercial-grade flatbed truck and the corner of the flatbed rolled up the hood of my car like it was … Read more
We have just gotten past the Winter Olympics and once again I’d like nothing more than to join a curling club and slide those stones down a bumpy bed of ice at five o’clock in the morning, which is when you usually have to do those sort of things because of scheduling conflicts. The only … Read more
Way back in eighth grade, I was on a travel hockey team and we had a game in Hamilton, Ontario against another bantam team, which was about a four-hour drive from Cleveland. The plan was to drive east, stop in Shaker Heights to pick up two kids who would be guest-playing on our team, and … Read more