Souper Bowl Tailgate Party--Planning Stage

Where would you like to be for the NFL season opener on September 10? Pittsburgh? Home of the Super Bowl Champions.

What would you like to do there? I have always wanted to tail gate.

How about tail gating with a chef or two? Awesome.

How about hooking up with two friends from way back and not so long met? Cool.

So, what's holding you back? Getting a flight from Barbados that does not involve two days of travel each way. Oh, that little problem?

It is on the schedule. The chefs are ladies, one of whom is from Pittsburgh, and my wife has met her and says I can go. Yes! She is a pastry chef on the Bim west coast. She has a friend who is a pastry chef in Pittsburgh. Oh, yes!

My old friend is someone with whom I worked getting Latvia out of the mire of Soviet economics in the mid-1990s. She is back home now, in Pittsburgh.

The not so long met friend is a man who works for Alcoa whom I met in Guinea.

Can we all party and make world peace? You betcha! We will try our very best.

But, first I have to figure out writing a newspaper article on how to create more jobs in Barbados, using 500 words or less. I did not plan on getting that request. I think it will be another pro bono effort.

Back here on September 10, then.