DERAILED

My 13-year old daughter is afraid of haunted houses, always has been. Not the real kind, mind you, but rather the ketchup splattering, pea s...

This is what I love about New York. I was sitting on a park bench at The Water Conservatory Pond in Central Park this afternoon, when a sli...

On the way out the door this morning, my wife stopped me and said: "Hey, mister...stop taking the razor out of the shower. That's m...

In my 21 years on the railroad, I'd thought I had seen it all; Accidents, fatalities, derailments, blackouts, blizzards, floods, washout...

The internet is a wonderful and amazing tool. From all over the globe, people of every race, religion and creed, are connected instantly th...

Now that school is back is session, I can’t get near my computer. It seems that just when one daughter gets off the computer chair, the othe...

Eight years ago this month, my wife and I moved our family 25 miles east of the town we grew up in. The real estate market was just starting...

Today was one of those days you just want to hold on to. I was on my way home from work when my wife called me and said that she and the gir...

I was standing outside my train tonight, answering questions for the passing commuters as they boarded the 6:18 train to Harrison, when a 40...

One of the benefits of having children, is that you stay on the cutting edge of popular culture. For example; coworkers regularly hear me us...

Last week my younger daughter attended lacrosse camp here in town. Three teenage girls from England ran the camp, giving instructions on the...

If this catches on, I could be out of a job: http://www.heavy.com/video/14643

Ooooh! YUCK!!! My skin is still crawling… About an hour ago, I went to cook up some burgers on my gas grill. When I opened the lid, two bead...

Gene Rayburn: Dumb Dora said... Charles Nelson Reilly is ... blank? Brett Somers: Hi Gene! (something we should all practice). I said (pulls...

My 13-year-old daughter ‘C’ has put a lot of effort in to mastering the lyrics to the song “Sweet Escape,” by Gwen Stefani . This is not an ...

About a year ago, my friend "Ron"(not his real name) left the conductor ranks and switched over to the cushy life of an engineer. ...

Back on New Years Day of this year, I wrote a post called Sarah Smiles , about my chance encounter with "Animal House/ Caddyshack ...

Dear Saint Anthony Please look around I lost my knapsack And it can't be found Please help me find it Grand Central Terminal, Monday, Ap...

On Friday, just outside the doors on Grand Central, there was an Earth Day Concert featuring Jon Anderson of the legendary rock group "...

Yeah-Yeah I know, I haven’t written in a while, it’s just that after almost 21 years on the railroad, my seniority finally allows me to hold...