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Category: Fiction
Search for Future Greeting Card Poets Goes Off Beaten Path
KEOKUK, Iowa. This town of approximately 11,000 in southeast Iowa, best known as a breeding ground for world-class stock car drivers such as the “Keokuk Gang“–Ernie Derr, Ramo Stott, Don White and Dick Hutcherson–has slowly […]
Volunteers Raise, Like Millions for Liberal Arts Major Disease
LAS VEGAS, Nevada. It’s Sunday morning in this desert city and the streets are quiet. Inside the casinos, where there are no clocks, gamblers who have played through the night order breakfast at blackjack and craps tables. […]
My Quest to Bring Karaoke to Mt. Everest
Sometimes, it takes a tragedy to change the way we view the world. For me, it was the story of David Sharp. Sharp was a climber in distress who died 300 feet from the summit […]
To Hell With Correct Posture Month
May is supposed to be a merry month, going back as far as Elizabethan dramatist Thomas Dekker, who wrote the deathless lines: O, the month of May, the merry month of May, So frolic, so […]
You’ll Never Walk a Dog in This Town Again
A 23-year old Russian dog walker attacked a competitor twice her age for poaching clients. The Boston Globe As I idly surveyed the lucite deal trinkets on my credenza my mind wandered back to the […]