A few years back, I drove down to the Outer Banks in North Carolina for a week of much needed relaxation. Because I lost the charger for my GPS, I was forced to rely on the Google Maps directions I quickly scribbled down the morning I left. The directions proved difficult to follow when I […]
Bill Murray Goes to Camp
When I was 11, my parents sent me away to this summer camp for an entire month. It was somewhere in upstate New York, but I forget what the exact area was called. At any rate, it was the sort of place where we slept in sleeping bags, drank bug juice, sung campfire songs, roasted […]
Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia at 4am
It was towards the beginning of June 2008. After a long night at a friends apartment in Center City Philadelphia, I decided to take a walk through Rittenhouse Square on my way home to South Philly. It was nice out, fairly warm but not too humid. The usual late night crew was there: homeless sleeping […]
A Gas Station in New Jersey
I went inside the store to pay and, when I got back to the car, saw that someone had the door open and was stealing change from the ash tray.
At a Diner in Maine
A few years back, I was traveling through New England on business. One morning I decided to eat at this nice little diner outside Portland. It was around 8am and I was sitting at the counter, drinking a cup of coffee and reading the paper while I waited for my breakfast to arrive. There were […]