All in Holidays

A Love Story

Maybe it was the chocolate lab puppy. Perhaps it was the parrot.

No one seems to remember exactly what it was about the bachelor who moved into the townhouse next door that first attracted the attention of three inquisitive kids.

Proud To Be An American?

On Independence Day many of us still get goosebumps thinking about the brave signers of the Declaration of Independence who knew they could be signing their own death warrants by committing treason against the crown.

St. Patrick's Day. A Short Story.

For years, I've been offering assorted explanations for why I spent three years in Dublin during the early 1980s: To cover a war without going to the Middle East. To avoid appearing in public in a bathing suit. To cure a case of unsightly hand warts. To date guys with Irish accents.

The list changes but almost always contains a kernel of truth.