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My mother was an intelligent, well read women with a good vocabulary, but for some unknown reason, she had trouble saying words with the dou...

My wife left this article on my homepage...HA! HA! HA! http://www.comcast.net/news/health/index.jsp?cat=HEALTHWELLNESS&fn=/2006/06/26/42...

A bridge on Amtrak’s Hell Gate branch got stuck in the upright position and our train was instructed to accept all of Amtrak’s passengers....

I stopped by the local convenience store after dropping my daughters off at school. I poured myself a cup of coffee, picked up the newspaper...

A familiar looking woman got on the train in Green’s Farms. She looked like your average Fairfield County wife, decked out in preppy clothes...

I was driving my daughters to school last week, when my daughter C said, Daddy...today we’re going to see “The Movie.” “What movie is that?”...

On a Sunday afternoon in 1958, my parents piled their eight kids into their car, (this was before I was born) and drove up to Wallingford ...

Actor/Director Ron Howard is usually on the top of other New Haven Line Conductor’s list of celebrity sightings and it had frustrated me tha...

I was collecting tickets on the train one afternoon when I came upon an old Irish gentleman. He perked up when he saw my company ID. Old Iri...

While growing up, we never locked the doors to my mother’s house. In fact, none of us even owned a house key. Coming from a big family, it...

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...