In God we trust; all others pay cash.

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.

Being a White Sox fan meant measuring victory in terms of defeat. A 6-5 defeat was a good day. A big rally was Wally Moses doubling down the right- field line.

There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.

In all my years of New York cab riding I have yet to find the colorful, philosophical cabdriver that keeps popping up on the late movies.

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.