I will never forget the Herm Edwards post-game press conference when, as the coach of New York Jets in the midst of a losing streak, he “went off” on a reporter who asked him if losing mattered anymore. In a classic Hermism he said, “This is what’s great about sports. This is what the greatest thing […]

I almost missed my flight! Well… I HAD to visit the men’s room and there I was… … trying to get the electronic eye on the paper towel dispenser to “detect” my frantically waiving hands!  That’s when I heard, “last call for passenger Lon Kieffer flight 1185 at Gate H3.” It was then that I […]

“No seriously!” That was a tag-line I used back in my stand-up days.  I would make an outlandish statement and then, as if to make it funnier, I would say, “No, Seriously!”  Pause, delay, “you’re right, I’m just kidding.   That’s my job!” Back in the 1980’s I cut my teeth as a stand-up comic at […]

Today was the day! Both my daughter and our neighbor, her friend, are of legal driving age but not yet independent.  They are, were, both in the Chaperone stage where they can only drive with an adult over 25 years of age and heading for the Cinderella state where they can drive alone but not […]