Category Archives: Life on a Cocktail Napkin

SUGAR PACKETS (More bits and pieces)

Most of the notes I’ve saved over the years are simply about what happened behind the bar — an interesting character I met, or a weird event that happened during the shift. Some of the notes tell a complete story … Continue reading

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AFTER-HOURS at CINDY’S

(Image from www.dreamstime.com) (Ed. note:  We found “Cindy!”  We’d lost touch with the young woman in this story — real name Wendy LaHaye — when she left Fidelity Investments and moved to California.  Now she’s back in the Boston area … Continue reading

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A FEW GOOD MEN (Famous cocktail napkin notes)

The idea for this week’s post comes from comrade-in-arms Scribbler50, author of one of my favorite blogs, Behind the Stick. I got this email from Scribbler the other day: “Hey, Mike, I just read something in the New York Daily … Continue reading

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BAR FIGHTS

I had to think it over before putting up this week’s post. Will anyone be interested in bar fights? “I’m certainly not,” Colleen said. (Colleen is my best friend. She looks over everything I write and I often rely on … Continue reading

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MY FAVORITE BLOGS

From time to time as I’m writing these post, I take a break and check out other blogs. There are millions of them. Seriously, I mean there are literally millions of blogs to choose from (and I have to thank … Continue reading

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