What a day today. We left town this morning at 10:00, right on schedule. We started by having my daughter Randy take a picture of the four of us by the truck. Holy cow, was that hard. It was -10 degrees outside. This year, I’m riding with Denis VandenHeuvel, Rick Steeber and Dave Brooks. Denis [...]

There are 39 of us making the trip to New Orleans this year. Unfortunately, that’s one short of what it was supposed to be. Pat Jacobs, my aunt, couldn’t make the trip. Aunt Pat is another one of those great women in my family, not too different than my Mom. And as Mom put it, [...]

Well, I’m heading back to New Orleans this weekend. This time, with three dozen other folks from Our Lady of Lourdes parish. We’re going to work with Catholic Charities to help rebuild homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. On this trip last year, we gutted out houses, but now we’re in a rebuilding phase. I’m told [...]

What were you doing last Wednesday night? If you’re like Bo Bai of Sunnyvale, CA, you were driving in Bedford Hills, NY, when your GPS unit told you to turn right. So you turned right, even though it was a railroad track you were turning onto.
Yep, he turned onto railroad tracks. So, what happened then? [...]