Posts tagged Heartwarming Stories
Saint Anthony of Padua–The Patron Saint of Lost Items

A daily distraction in a busy life is the hazard of misplacing things, or more accurately forgetting where items have been left – most often very useful ones: eyeglasses, cell phone, wallet, hearing aids, face mask and on and on. In my office, that can include a favorite pen, even my still warm cup of tea. As the ad for the ghost busting agency in the movie, Ghostbusters, asked (and do pardon the appalling grammar), “Who you gonna call?”

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Mother’s Day: A Decade of Remembrances

Some holidays are accompanied with fanfare – of the fireworks sort. Others are somber events, celebrated with flags and flowers on gravestones. There are also religious holidays – better known as holy days – which generally entail going to church, and some holidays celebrate history with parades and bands. Mother’s Day falls into none of those categories. It’s a “quiet” holiday – meant just for the family.

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A Super Bowl LIV Surprise: Baby Boomers and Millennials Have So Much in Common

As a diehard New England Patriots’ fan, I was wondering last Saturday how I would get through Super Bowl LIV – would I find myself bored to tears? Torn between which team to root for, I made a last-minute decision to support the Kansas City Chiefs. Why not? They’d been “in the desert” for fifty years, and I’m an underdog lover (except when it comes to the Patriots).

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The Plight of the American Tea Drinker: Why are we given short shrift?

Let’s face reality – to paraphrase Rodney Dangerfield, “We, the tea drinkers of the United States, get no respect”.  


If you’re a coffee drinker, I can’t expect you to empathize with our plight, but you might think about how you’d feel if the circumstances were reversed – just substitute the word ‘coffee’ for ‘tea’ throughout this lamentation.

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A Truly Great Man

The Good Is Oft Interred with Their Bones… But Not so for This Man

His name was Gregory Proctor. We met only twice, each time on the occasion of a several-day business meeting in the Washington D.C. law office of K&L Gates where he was the Senior Practice Assistant to a partner at the firm.  In total, the words between us could not have spanned more than 30 minutes.

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