Category: My life and family

Bringing Back Your Hartford Whalers

This week marks a tough anniversary in Connecticut history.     Thirteen years ago the Hartford Whalers left the capital city, breaking the hearts of fans all across the land of steady habits and […]

Back from Vacation

The Houses:  L-R rear   Chris, Jodi, Kara, Dennis  L-R front Tommy, Matt, Julian and Helena I’m back from a week in South Florida visiting my brother, sister-in-law, and their children.  They moved […]

Tackle the Tower

This Saturday I will running up Connecticut’s newest skyscraper, Hartford 21.   34 floors all to benefit the American Lung Association.   Mark Dixon is the captain of Team 3 and recruited me to […]

The Gris

  Kara and I grabbed Valentine’s Day dinner at a true Connecticut treasure:  the Griswold Inn in Essex, known to locals as “the Gris,”  pronounced with a “z.”  We sat in the […]

Forgot a job!

I forgot to mention in my previous post on jobs, that I worked as an extra for the television series “Spenser for Hire.”   I walked around in the background and met the […]

Other Jobs?

After reading my previous entry about my start in television, someone asked what other kinds of jobs I did before I became a reporter.   When I thought about it,  I was amazed […]

Marking a Milestone

This is me back in 1988 learning how to become a reporter.    Trying to make the transition from Rick Springfield wannabe to Dan Rather wasn’t easy.    Kara calls this my “Chachi” look.   […]