I was driving home and witnessed three passenger airplanes collide in the sky above me and crash behind some mid-rise apartments on...

I was with a group of family members at a harbor in Los Angeles when my grandfather noticed a homely young woman wearing a necklace and...

I had met Chicago Cubs relief pitcher Tyler Chatwood at a charity event and he was quite inebriated. Chatwood told me that the Cubs had...

I was on a plane and couldn’t remember where I was going until I heard a man speaking with a South African accent. I was sitting in a row...

I was attending a family wedding at a posh hotel in Beverly Hills. I was sitting in the back seat of a car with my youngest daughter; the...

I saw my friend Marilda standing in front of some old houses in the Cabanyal neighborhood—Valencia's old maritime quarter—sketching the...

My private jet arrived at O'Hare Airport on the evening of my 50th high school reunion in Chicago. I was picked up at the airport in a...

I was back in Chicago and, seeing how I was going to be home for several months, I decided to buy a used car. I went to Western Avenue...

I had returned to the hair salon where my barbershop was located after having been on an extended vacation. I immediately noticed that...

I was overbooked and overwhelmed at my new barbershop on the grounds of an Italian villa I had recently purchased. My evening appointment...

I had recently moved back to Spain where I purchased a small but stately apartment above one of Madrid's finest Michelin-starred...

I had recently moved back to my old neighborhood in Chicago and decided to go to the kosher deli for lunch. When I got there, I was...

I was talking to someone outside of the children's hospital in Chicago when a taxi pulled up and out jumped my childhood pediatrician,...

I had recently moved back to Chicago and rented an apartment in high rise building where I had just brought the last of my things over. I...

After closing their flagship restaurant in Chicago, the Moy family opened up a Chinese restaurant in Valencia, Spain. Going back there to...

I was at a seaside resort in Mexico with my father’s family when my cousin Chris suddenly remembered it was his mother’s birthday. Chris...

An old friend of mine, whose father had passed away ten years earlier, called and invited me to stay the night at his house in the...

I was incarcerated in an over-crowded, rat-infested prison in Latin America. I was alone in my cell, which was very nicely appointed with...

I was playing baseball for the Chicago Cubs—picked up mid-season as a replacement player for one of their Triple-A teams—and during a...

I had just finished performing with my band when my old friend Robert came back stage accompanied by a security guard. Thrilled to see my...