I grew up on a dirt road. Cooper Street was located five miles from the nearest small village. I have often wondered, why wasn’t it called Cooper Road? I thought streets were in villages and cities? To compensate some people called it Cooper Street Road. I…
This morning I resumed a summer ritual of mine. This ritual always seems like a good idea at 8:15 in the morning but somehow by 11:15 AM I am wondering, I did this why? I am talking about cycling and specifically cycling with one of the…
While setting up for my camping adventure last week, I pulled out my trusty dusty EMS camping sleep pad. It wasn’t ever the most comfortable pad in the world but certainly was a lot better than nothing. I’ve had this thing for fifteen years and it…
About a year ago I went to my chiropractor, Dr. Stephen Wechsler complaining of chronic ankle aches and pain. Many years of playing basketball and way too many ankle sprains have left my ankle in rough shape. Dr. Steve had me hop on one of his…
When I was a kid, probably five or six years old, my father was big into fishing. We would pile into the truck camper and head off to Pulaski to go fishing in the Salmon River Reservoir. There were six of us total so we were…
1979 found me starting at Cayuga Community College. I was in the Telecommunications Technology program and had every intention of become an engineer at a radio or TV station. That was before I found out that engineers did not make that much (less thn $20,000). I…