Suprise Me

I am booked on a flight on PSA, called "The World's Friendliest Airline," with smiles painted on the front of all their planes. Read More

Crossing the bottleneck of a bridge required maneuvering through a tangle of feeder lanes, timing the rush hour, and most of all having good traffic karma. Read More

Playing with curse words and other oddities of family tradition. Read More

Imagine being in that stadium with thousands of other university students and faculty, all roused up, politically aware, wanting a path forward.  The emotional energy was contagious and overwhelming.  Surely the concerns of so many people coming together could not be denied.  Read More

Won't you please move closer? Now, say, "Cheese"! Read More

A relative of mine became famous as a result of a combination of factors that could not possibly have been anticipated. Read More

As my mother descended into dementia, her letters stopped, and we kept in touch through phone calls, increasingly with my father alone.  By the time my mother died, he had become my confidante and mutual support system. Read More

What’s today’s weather? We really need to pay close attention. Read More

      Rush hour is a daily ordeal, a gauntlet thrown down by urban existence. It is a time when the open road, a symbol of freedom, transforms into a congested, serpentine nightmare. The once-fluid asphalt becomes a parking lot in motion, a claustrophobic ballet of honking horns and overly impatient drivers. Beyond the… Read More

The winter of my discontent has arrived and I’m feeling exhausted and so sad. There is no turkey to carve. Read More