I was out for a stroll along the boardwalk enjoying a beautiful afternoon at the seaside. Suddenly, an adolescent black bear appeared...

I was on my way home and decided to pick up some food for dinner so I walked through town looking for a take out. Walking past a...

I was curious to know what words, if any, my father might have uttered on his deathbed, so I called my mother to ask. She said he did...

I was hired by a young female filmmaker who, in her email to me, said that her mother dated me back in the 1980s in Los Angeles when I...

We made a family pilgrimage to Wales so dad could have a final visit to where his ancestors came from. We spent the day at a library in...

I had recently moved back to Valencia where I started a new business venture parking cars for busy executives, like a personal valet...

I met two Indian students on Devon Avenue who asked me if I could take them to the Bollywood-style theater downtown. As there were only...

I had moved into a two story apartment with my ex-wife and her mother, who was recently widowed and came to stay with us. One morning the...

I was at the airport and a lovely young woman approached me and asked if I knew how to get to the city. I told her there was a public...

I was on the bus heading to Amsterdam and struck up a conversation with a gangly, middle-aged peroxide-blond-haired woman who became more...

I was visiting the navy base in Puerto Rico where my grandfather was stationed during World War II. He asked me to look for his old...

I got the call early in the morning that I was to report to a remote location, but my supervisor said when I arrived at the car rental...

I was riding in a limo that dropped me off at Winston Towers, where I had a date with Jill S. and I got there three hours early so I...

I was staying at an old house in the countryside outside of London. I was visited by two of my cousins who arrived exhausted by their...

I was in Chicago riding a southbound 'L' train heading into downtown when a couple boarded my car. She was a nicely dressed, middle-aged...

We were notified of the imminent end of the world and my mother picked me up and we drove to my grandparents house on Maplewood where it...

I went to a remote camping site in Orgiva, in the Alpujarra mountains in southern Spain with a friend and an acquaintance, a barbershop...

I walked over to our neighborhood launderette to see if I had left a laundered shirt there despite knowing I had picked up all seven of...

I had just arrived at Chicago's O'Hare Airport and my uncle Art picked me up in a convertible and we drove into the city. He decided to...

I was visiting my parents at their high-rise condo on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago's Gold Coast when my mother woke me up early one...