It was March 16, 2016, and I was taking the Amtrak to Philadelphia on Friday. I had a nice nap and realized that Philadelphia was the next stop. I got up quickly, grabbed my bag, and got ready for the next stop. Then I realized that the next stop was Wilmington, not Philadelphia. I held

From October 2007 until December 2011, I worked for Covidien in the Boston area. My first apartment was in Quincy, but after one year, I moved to Wellesley. As usual, I commuted back to Philadelphia every weekend. Occasionally, Becky would come back to Boston for the weekend.   On Sunday in 2008, Becky had looked

I used to live in Virginia, working for DXC (formerly CSC) in Tysons Corner. I worked there from July 2013 until December 2019. For the first four years, I had an apartment in Prosperity Flats on Dorr Avenue. It was easy to take the metro to the Amtrak and go back and forth to Philadelphia

After the first game, Philadelphia Phillies lost to Toronto.  The next night was game number 2, and I went to the same bar that I went to last night with the same fans.   The guy next to me was clearly a Phillies fan. As part of what I usually do, I asked him where

I was working in Munich in 2007 for Sandoz.   Every Saturday, I took to Marienplatz to go to Starbucks. A few other Americans would get together for coffee.   One day, there were three people in front of me for coffee. I realized immediately they were Americans.   I asked them, “Where are you

In October 1993, I started at the Campbell Soup company. My first trip from Campbell was to go to Melbourne, Australia, and then to Tokyo. From there, I went to Hong Kong.   In Hong Kong, on Sunday morning, I went to the bar at the mall near the hotel. I found many people to