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This time of year carries many monikers – depending upon how empty or full the glass is for the person you’re speaking to. I’ve heard it called the second season, the shoulder season, the quality not quantity season, the quiet … Continue reading →

Let me begin this week by saying that I decided to read my two-part column from the last two weeks – which is uncharacteristic of me to read my own stuff – and something about it caught my attention and … Continue reading →

Last week, I was telling you about the best sandwich ever. I was in the process of making it when I had to cut this short. I’ll now pick up exactly where I left off… So I found an onion. … Continue reading →

Have you ever had a meal that was so incredibly delicious, so memorably epic, or so repugnantly disgusting that you have to tell people about it? Not only did that just happen to me, but it just happened to me … Continue reading →

Well another season slowly comes to a close in typical psychotic fashion. It’s that bitter sweet time of year. In my world, it actually becomes more complicated because at work, I’m still completely in summer mode which means I don’t … Continue reading →

Labor Day weekend traditionally marks the end to the summer season. So as another beach year nears its close, I find myself doing a mental review of what I’ve already described as the summer that wasn’t. Fortunately, what this season … Continue reading →

Some years, just being a bartender in Ocean City, MD is more than enough to fill a column like this on a weekly basis. But unfortunately, the summer of 2013 so far has been at best, less than memorable. But … Continue reading →

I promise this is it for the bee sting story. When we left off, I was sitting alone in my wife’s car in the parking lot of “The Mart”. She had gone in to get my plethora of prescriptions. Unfortunately, … Continue reading →

Let me start by saying happy Fourth of July. I hope all of you had a safe, enjoyable, healthy, and wonderful holiday. Last year about this time, I hit you with my lengthy patriotic rant mixed in with a smattering … Continue reading →

I know I’ve said it many times before, but often times this piece just writes itself. I’ll have something in mind to write about, and then an unexpected event pops up, and I subsequently become nothing more than a vessel … Continue reading →

In last week’s column, I told you about how I had recently been called out by friends and readers regarding some aspects of my writing techniques. One of the main things to come into question was my inflated vocabulary. I … Continue reading →