Early last month, I was vacationing in Ocean City, New Jersey with some friends of mine. Six of us split a three-bedroom duplex about four blocks from the beach, where we’d spend the bulk of each day. The weather that week was especially hot, but we all enjoyed taking off work for a week and […]
Bill Murray in Boston
Last fall I drove up to New England to visit my family and also some friends going to school in Boston. After a long drive one Friday afternoon that included getting stuck in New York City traffic for almost an hour and a half, I made it to my cousins’ house in Connecticut for dinner. […]
One Unbelievable Elevator Ride, Part 2
So there I was, walking down the 10th floor hallway of my building, with Bill Murray; who happened to be wearing a white dinner jacket that had been stained red with wine. It was either very late at night or very early in the morning, depending on how you want to look at it. For […]
One Unbelievable Elevator Ride, Part 1
The building I live in has two elevators. One does not work and has never worked in the almost three years I’ve lived in the 70-year-old building. The other one, which does work, is a maintenance elevator. You know the kind; the ones that have the fence you pull across before you work the old […]
A Late Night Snack in Chicago
A few summers ago I landed an internship at a 4-star hotel in Chicago. I was in college at the time, pursuing a Tourism and Hospitality Management degree and, thanks to the good word put in by one of my instructors, I got the internship. Although I was excited at the time, part of me […]