It’s one of the defining scenes in the movie “Miracle,” when U.S. Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks imparts a lesson about subjugating individual agendas to the good of the whole team. Steam is practically pouring from Brooks’ ears after his…
August 2014 Blog Archives
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Aug 18
Of poutine and pennies
Each of my grandparents grew up in Quebec, Canada, before moving to the mill communities of Lewiston and Auburn, Maine. We spent Christmas Eves at my maternal grandparents’ modest home, at one end of which was my grandfather’s barbershop. Next…
Aug 11
Hershey’s Ocean Blue still keeps gray clouds far away
I arrived in central Pennsylvania in June 1991 as a business writer for the York Daily Record. It was a hot, parched summer, and I lived in a forgettable one-room apartment in a building that I dubbed the Green Monster.…
