By T. Yuen
In August I took Anna (my 13 year old granddaughter) to Pearlridge Shopping Center (Aiea, Hawai’i) for a day of shopping. We decided to rate the service of each store at which we made purchases. Service was rated thus: Very nice, So-so, and Awful. Of the 8 stores we visited, 2 were Very nice…sales personnel were genuinely gracious and accommodating…
By D. Robert
To cap off and an already capped off night, present at last Thursday’s game were some very honest, very very nice kids who found a fortune worth of Yankees playoff tickets sitting on the streets in Summit, New Jersey…
By D. Robert
Game night was magical. Crisp, clear skies and 49,000 teaming fans falling into chorus to varied chants of, “MVP, MVP (meant for Gary Sheffield)”, “Boston Sucks, Boston Sucks”, and, well, you get the picture. It was a fall MLB classic: The Yankees v. Twins, final regular season home game in the Bronx…
Read this piece by Times op-ed columnist, Nicholas D. Kristof, about this brave woman standing out and standing up for basic human and women’s rights in Pakistan. Note: Donation information to help her cause is listed at the end of the article.
By Lauren Williams
We moved to SW 54th Avenue in Portland last July. I knew this neighborhood was different when we returned from grocery shopping one afternoon to find a photocopied, child-drawn invitation to a Saturday afternoon ice cream social. Bring your own spoon, bowl, and a topping. An ice cream social…
By D. Robert
Recent weather in the East has been dominated by the crossing of Hurricane Jeanne. Heavy rain forced cancellation of baseball games up and down the coast all week long. One of those was Tuesday’s opener between Division leaders, the Twins and the Yankees…
