Every family who has ever taken a road trip knows the value of a good distraction! We have all been there: the license plate game where you note each time yo...

Growing up, my father was a tireless driver who loved a road trip; Billy always had another hour in him! A 30-year resident of Florida since his retirement, ...

On March 16th, just as my fiancee Gaetana and I were beginning what we thought would be our two-week confinement due to the coronavirus outbreak (ah, the goo...

Every two-weeks for 20 years I visited my barber Alex at the Katonah Barber Shop. It was Alex’s job to stop me from looking like a bald guy with steel wool g...

Not everybody appreciates all I have to say. Thankfully my daughter Buck and my fiancee Guy both have the same superpower: The ability to see my faults and i...

It’s become an inside joke in my house that I am starting a revolution. I’m not sure about starting one, but I do plan on participating in the one that is go...

I always loved the work of Lily Tomlin; the brilliant 1970’s era comic and TV star. Lily Tomlin was omnipresent on TV in the 1970's! Of course, we only had ...

“America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed!” Or at-least so says Will Ferrell in the 2006 movie, “Talledega Nights.” In the movie, Ferrell plays r...

During the OPEC oil embargo of 1973, the price of a barrel of oil rose over 400%, taking my father’s blood pressure up with it! Tremont Paint-my family's pa...

My daughter Buck Wheat became a graduate of THE Ohio State University this weekend: all while laying on the couch in a Rolling Stones tee-shirt. I made her...

If you’re an independent retailer of paint or hardware, you may not know the name Ben Maibach, but you know the brushes and rollers he makes! Ben is the inco...

Buck Wheat has only been home for a few days and already she, Guy and I have new pairs of “Beats” noise-cancelling headphones on order. A cocoon designed to ...

Before the COVID-19 outbreak, Guy worked for a physicians practice which has a large presence in our county. A few hundred employees, half-a-dozen offices al...

A month ago, Guy and I were empty-nesters. We went where we wanted to go and when! Dinnertime was mostly pizza night, ham sandwich night and “I’m going to t...

My parents celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary earlier this week! Celebrated may not be exactly the right word. They were quarantined in their apartme...

Buck Wheat called me today at 3:09. I noticed the time because when your phone rings at 3:09 AM when you are sound asleep.....you check the time before you ...

On August 12, 1986, while his making opening remarks at a press conference in Illinois President Ronald Reagan called the words in the title of this blog “Th...

Guy and I recently finished our 14-day quarantine. But with the end of the coronavirus outbreak not yet in sight and in-fact the worst of this pandemic sti...

In July of 1640, Captain Turner of the New Haven Colony purchased the city of Stamford, called Rippowom at the time, from Chief Ponus of the Siwanoy tribe. F...

Being quarantined with an Italian woman has some benefits. Meatballs and sausage in a home-made sauce is definitely one of them! The sauce was jarred fresh a...