How do you thank someone who’s helped make your lifelong dream come true? How do you approach it when you’ve never met them? What do you...

My brother, Mike, and his wife, Lorraine Button Tracy, got the hell out of Dodge in 1978 after Lorraine found a note on her desk that...

I live down by the Susquehanna River. On the good side of the water. But that poses some problems. I can’t sit on my porch these summer...

"Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see." I think Edgar Allan Poe — if he had a chance to revise the thought — would...

One Sunday night in 1981, I was in a bus station with my old buddy Ronnie. We had no money left after a weekend visit to State College....

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Growing up I took piano lessons and failed miserably. I learned three chords and two scales before all my hopes of musicianship...

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A nice spring day lets me get out on my bicycle for the first time after being lazy for a few months. I find a steady cadence on unbroken...