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If you’re one of my regular readers, you’ve probably noticed that I changed the template to this blog. It’s not that I didn’t like the old d...

It's hard to believe that my wife and I have been married for 17 years. What's even more frightening, is that we started dating 25 y...

One snowy January evening circa 1993, actor Christopher Reeve came running down the platform of track 25 in Grand Central Terminal in New Yo...

Did you ever wonder how conductors keep track of all the people who board and exit the train? One trick of the trade is the seat check. Seat...

“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” Last week my family and I were watching Forrest Gump on UPN or TNT...

I’ve seen the author Dominick Dunne on my train several times over the years. He is always very impeccably dressed and looks as if he is hea...

If you had asked me what a Link was a year ago, I would have said that Linc was Clarence Williams III from that 1970’s “ fuzz” show “ The M...

Last week I was boarding my train in Grand Central with a co-worker named Abby. Abby had just come back from vacation and was thumbing throu...

This is the third and last installment in the Connecticut Cruisers trilogy . We had some misgivings about bringing our families to Orient B...

Today’s post is the sequel to “Connecticut Cruisers.” On the third day of our cruise, we pulled into San Juan Bay in Puerto Rico. We were ge...

This time last year, my family was on a Carnival Cruise in the Caribbean. We had just finished putting a major addition on to our house and ...

“All your baby pictures were lost in the fire.” This is the story my mother, (Kay) told me…and I believed her. There are various versions of...

Tomorrow we’re having 30 people over for Easter dinner. My wife and I have spent the past couple of days grocery shopping, cleaning the hous...

Saturday Night Live comedienne, Victoria Jackson , was a regular on my late afternoon train in the early 1990’s. She starred as one of the ...

They’re calling it the worst kept secret in broadcasting: Katie Couric is leaving The Today Show to anchor The CBS Evening News. It was such...

The First Annual Blogger Convention was held at The Villa Bianca Banquet Hall in Seymour, Connecticut on Saturday. Conventiently, this was ...

When my daughters were young they would occasionally, like most children, watch Sesame Street. One day while watching along with them, I not...

(drum roll please !) 10. Belatedly discovered Milk Duds NOT on diet...Go figure! 9. You can't deny an Irishman his potatoes. 8. I figur...

Hi Bobby, It is so nice to hear from you! I cant believe that it has been five years since we communicated via email in which you gave me so...

Something shocking happened to my brother John one Sunday night in 1974. He was at his girlfriend’s house watching the CBS news show 60 M...