Author: bezzy

The hockey camp was in southern New Hampshire, though it wasn’t really a hockey camp at all. It was two cabins within the campus of a larger summer camp. Since the hockey players were isolated in every way from the regular campers, there was a Sharks Vs. Jets atmosphere between the two groups, though instead…

The first time I saw the Wilson’s they came bounding down my road like two excited frogs on a rainy day. I was probably eight years old at the time and very interested in changes to our neighborhood where two out of every three houses were occupied by geriatric shut-ins. Turnover was exciting, especially because…

It was the summer before my senior year of high school when I worked at a local Christmas superstore in Northern New Jersey. Out on the highway somewhere past Red Lobster and before the turnoff to the mall it occupied a large square building. During the off-season they referred to it as “Summer at the…