Years ago when I lived in the city, I stopped by a good friend’s apartment unannounced to watch a game I know he'd be watching on TV. He lived with his girlfriend who I also considered a good friend. After the game, she went out shopping. We hung out talking. When he went to the kitchen to get a couple beers, I shuffled through a box of VHS tapes that was under the coffee table. This was pre-internet days. I was surprised...

It was another spectacular day for a sail on our boat. The wind was light, but that was fine as my wife and I had a couple of guests on board who didn't really have any sailing experience. The water was smooth with hardly a noticeable wave. I figured we could motor sail out a ways and then slowly sail around taking it easy. Onboard with us that day were two women friends of ours. Both were single; one divorced for a numbe...

My wife and I have a small sailboat we keep on a the Great Lakes. It’s old but in really nice condition, and capable of cruising for days non-stop, which we do from time to time with a crew of friends, but usually we just daysail around our home area. That’s what we were up to on a nice hot day last summer. Under blues skies with small puffy white clouds, we had a nice breeze and had worked our way upwind, tacking back an...