Today a woman walked into our lobby on the verge of tears. “Do you recognize me?” she asked. I wasn’t sure that I did and was about to tell her so, but she continued, “I work upstairs. I’m the receptionist.” Ah, yes. She’d accepted delivery of a package once while we were away and I’d […]
My friend Peter Saputo’s Tryon, NC cottage sprung a leak a few months ago. The water came into his basement eight feet below grade and, judging from the stains it left behind, crested at about six inches. That was enough to ruin walls, flooring, furniture and pretty much everything else not made of plastic. Excavation […]
This morning as I was walking down Main Street toward the theater, a homeless-looking man moved into my peripheral vision and the first words out of his mouth were, “Boss man!” He was black (the relevance of which I’ll address momentarily) and I said “No thanks” without so much as looking at him. I kept […]
