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The following is a story I wrote the company newsletter while working as a Bellman at the Hyatt at Fisherman’s Wharf newsletter back in the 1990s. The premise for the article was to gather stories from various folks in the hotel and leave it to the reader to determine...

Summer reading for hight school. Ususally 1-3 books of 250ish page lenght. Summer these is no reading but plenty of time. Summerr deadline it becuase a math exercise   50 pages a day for next 30 days. etc.

The following is a story I wrote the company newsletter while working as a Bellman at the Hyatt at Fisherman’s Wharf newsletter back in the 1990s. The premise for the article was to gather stories from various folks in the hotel and leave it to the reader to determine...

Moderator: "The word is: Delineate" Contestant:  "Del-in-ee-ate? Humm, Del-in-eeh-ate. Can you use that in a sentence please? Moderator: "Sure. Spell the word: Delineate"

Many years ago, after my father emigrated to America, his father brought one of my Dad's younger brothers to a Seminary (in Ireland) to hopefully be taken in to start his journey into the priesthood. The priest at the door said, "He's kind of scrawny, isn't he?" My...

This is a one-time email, I won't bother you again.  "Grievances" by Thomas McKeon Friends, Colleagues and other people unfortunate enough to be in my address book,  No, this is not step 9 of 12; I can assure you, I’m still drinking quite heavily. This is an email to...

My Mom said that with her first child she was overwhelmed with joy when he started to walk. When the second child started to walk, after a year of chasing after #1, she would go over and knock #2 down.

If we force every teenage boy in the world to wear only collared shirts, they could clear up air pollution in months by drawing particulates out of the air and into their skin and out through the backs of their necks and onto their shirt collars. Rinse and Repeat.

Palm Springs, Feb 1994 - We were all there for a bachelor party and we had the best day out at the Bob Hope Classic golf tournament. I enlisted my friend John Sheehan to help me to stalk Eddie Van Halen who was playing in the tournament (Foursome: Tom Kite, Gerald...

In case you didn't know, the Kerry Picnic in the 70s and 80s was the original "Burning Man."

At the store today, in the "Express" line when the lady ahead of me asked for the price of the Fig Newtons she had on the conveyer belt. The clerk tried to scan it but didn't work so he asked bag boy to check the shelf. She had a few more non-fig items that he started...

The boys had had their bachelor party fun in the exotic and remote location of North Beach and before it got too late, and the thousand beers could take hold, they thought it best to continue the session close to home. Because they were in North Beach where parking is...

It was a somewhat typical Sunday evening at Ridley’s Bar in the mid-90’s: Plenty of rough guys and some equally rough girls writhing to the somewhat-muffled sounds emanating  from a DJ booth perched precariously in the upper corner of the bar. I had been to the...