Sometimes you have to amuse yourself — The lineup at the Cheesecake Factory was insane. Aventura Mall in South Florida was humming with people and Herbert Mendix was pressed against a pillar watching everybody around him being seated. He’d arrived twenty minutes earlier and when he announced he needed a table for one, he could almost sense…

The Secret of Success is No Shmucks Allowed Images By; StartupStockPhotos / 122 images on Pixabay.com I recently finished producing a docuseries and I enjoyed every minute of it. In fact, I Loved being involved with the project. I dealt with capable and decent people, and it made everything a…

Sacrilegious Is Never Good David Diamond was heads over heels in love with Natalie Marcone. She was everything he ever wanted in a woman. She had eyes that were dark brown and were like saucers. She was tall and her body was simply perfect. She worked out at least twice…

Trying to escape reality Marci Leventhal was loudly blasting Herschell Ostrepeller in Alfredo’s Italian restaurant and she could have cared less about the other diners who were listening in. ‘’I’m sick of your wimpy ways Herschell. I ask you to do something and you say it will get done and…

It isn’t always Happy stories at Weddings Mark Singer looked at the wedding invitation about ten times. He didn’t know exactly what to do. He liked Jenny Fench and Jack Applebaum but he kept asking himself if he wanted to go to their Wedding. They had all been close friends…

Sometimes Winning can mean losing Henry Jaglam rarely won anything at the casino. He was a ‘’frequent player’’ but he just didn’t seem to be a frequent winner. In fact over the past four weeks he had lost almost six hundred dollars and he couldn’t maintain that kind of pace…

Plans don’t always work out — It was a scorching hot day in downtown Toronto and Jack Lisman thought he was going to pass out. He worked as a Stockbroker in a very comfortable air conditioned office, but as soon as he took the elevator down from the thirty third floor and went outside he wanted…

The meaning of life… The black flies were beyond annoying, and if it wasn’t for the non-stop biting of the fish, Herschell Ostrepeller would have been very agitated. He had agreed to join his older brother Marcus on a fishing expedition into the wildest wilderness with twelve other guys. He…

There is always more to the story The Ostrepeller men’s clothing store ‘’Ostrepeller & Son’’ did a solid if not great business. The store was located in Bowmanville, Ontario. Marci Ostrepeller never understood why her Dad who was extremely smart was content with spending his life running the store. He…