Snow I can handle, I grew up with it okay. But ice – that’s another story. Driving on that slick stuff, walking on it – that’s just downright treacherous. Some of the most dangerous winter weather I ever experienced was a few years ago....

I was 12 years old. I was on a Southern vacation with my folks. I’ve never forgotten those signs I saw on the bathrooms: “Colored” “White.” See, we didn’t have those signs in the racially mixed neighborhood where I grew up, so I...

I think we all have awful memories of the painful scenes at Ground Zero in the rubble of the World Trade Center after September 11. I was kind of close to that because of our years in the New York area and even the people we knew in that building. And the firemen,...

When we were living in New Jersey, boy, Giants Stadium – it was a mecca in northern New Jersey. At that time, 70,000 people. before the new stadium was built, were… I mean it’s bigger now. But, boy, that’s a lot of people descending on the...

They advertised a special on “flying sharks.” And the TV channel didn’t disappoint the people who tuned in. They showed an island off the coast of South Africa where great white sharks jump as much as 15 feet in the air with their prey, and the...