Ordinary Durham

I have never been one to take great physical risks. Rock climbing looks idiotic me and I’ll never jump out of an airplane. However, when guys start talking about their close brushes with disaster, I do have a story to tell. After my junior year at Notre Dame, a few of my teammates on the […]

I’ll admit I got a little perturbed by a lack of response to emails and phone calls from the police detective that was investigating the burglary at my home and I let her know it. In fact, it was starting to annoy me more than the burglary itself.  For someone that spends a lot of […]

I arrived home from the gym one morning recently and poured myself some coffee and checked my email.  My daughter, who had been at a doctor’s appointment had arrived a few minutes earlier and was working at her desk. I walked into the room that serves as our dining room, theater room, game room, breakfast […]