Some pains are beyond words. A week ago, Piper Forsen, daughter of my friends Rich and Nathalie, died in a motorcycle accident. She was 23. She was riding her newly purchased Suzuki motorcycle and, it appears, speeding. She missed a curve and hit the road’s guard rail. She survived a few moments but died on […]
A message regarding the online police report I filed following my car’s damage appeared in my inbox recently, wedged between Recipe of the Day from Taste of Home (Vietnamese Pork Chops, if you’re interested) and Buy This Compact Chainsaw (no thanks.) The email read: “If there is steering column and ignition switch damage this was […]
Last Sunday I tumbled down an escalator and was fortunate not to break anything. I abraded my upper left arm but was amazed at how little harm I’d done to myself. The immediate assistance provided by strangers truly surprised me… Tuesday night, my car was broken into. The thief destroyed the car’s ignition switch and […]
So it has not been a good week. On Sunday I did an ass-over-tea-kettle fall on an escalator, and last night someone broke into my car and tried to steal it. They couldn’t start it, even after destroying the ignition key switch and the steering column cover. I’m not sure who would want to steal […]
Something Happened. I fell. Down an escalator. It was unsightly, unpleasant and pretty painful, but it endorsed my belief that people, as a whole, are decent. I tumbled headfirst down the escalator after missing a step. I was fortunate enough to twist and land on my back, and somehow managed to keep my head from […]
