The orderly’s name was Rich. He’d come to fill my mother’s water pitcher. Rich had eyebrows like steel wool and eyes that seemed focused anywhere but here.
Do you have children?” a new acquaintance will ask, in a natural effort to prompt conversation. My grip tightens around my wine glass, and for an instant, I glance away.
Oscar Levant, pianist, composer, actor and native Pittsburgher, once quipped: “There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
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Issue QuarterWinter
Issue Year2006
Sub HeadingEntrepreneurs can be detrimental to their own health
I knew my son before he was born. “That’s ridiculous,” my mother said. I was seven months pregnant and had just told her that my unborn son had a great sense of humor.
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Issue QuarterWinter
Issue Year2008
Sub HeadingAfter a lifetime on the go, Lori Jakiela knew her time to stay put had come
