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…
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…
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…
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.…