Often, traveling will play a trick on you. For example, on the Wednesday before the Thanksgiving holiday, I traveled by interstate bus from New York to Storrs, Connecticut. The distance was 147 miles according to the mileage on the bus ticket. The first twenty minutes of the trip got us from New York’s Port Authority [...]

About three weekends ago, I was one of more than 56,000 people in attendance at Belmont Park, in Elmont, NY, for the 2005 edition of the Breeders’ Cup, which is commonly known as the Super Bowl of thoroughbred horse racing. One hundred of the best racehorses in the world were on hand to compete for [...]

The first time I read those words that are the title of this month’s column, they had been written by Paul Moran who writes the Horse Racing column for Newsday, a New York area newspaper. The circumstances were a golden October afternoon, when a horse called Go For Wand shattered her right ankle while battling [...]

Back in the old days before PC’s and VCR’s, before anyone had ever dreamed of DVD’s, before cell phones, and definitely before television, there were movies. And before movies, the main entertainment mediums were books and art and music. It was an age of mystery and things that were usually discussed in bed, or at [...]

So, did you grow up in a city or was it the suburbs, or maybe you were a kid who grew up in a rural neighborhood where you had to get on a bike and pedal for a while just to see your next-door neighbor’s house. Me? I grew up on Long Island, about 40 [...]

  Do you know those wonderful lyrics to the September Song written by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Maxwell Anderson in 1938. Well, it’s a long, long time From May to December But the days grow short When you reach September… The authors are not just talking about the Autumnal Equinox coming in a few [...]

So today is Labor Day and is a National Holiday in the USA. This fact is sort of misleading as most shops are open for business, as are movie theaters, bars, and restaurants. Many people will be working. Taxi drivers, bus drivers, and the rail, water, and air transportation systems will all be manned and [...]