Suprise Me

Grandmothers and their joys and waiting patiently for what will be. Read More

Example 1: High School, 1968. Trigonometry test. I walked by the desk of a girl I liked – not romantically, but a nice friend. I looked at her test sheet, and quietly said words to the effect: “problem 12 – divide by two.” She did, thereby earning 5 more points. My rationale: She obviously understood… Read More

I hope when you grow up you'll have kids just like you. Read More

In the Before time, every evening the news god spoke. Read More

I still own a pair of black Can’t Bust ‘Em dungarees that I wore while working as a timber cutter at the Buckshot mine in Eldora, Colorado. I don’t wear them anymore — I’m a little beyond a 1970 waistline — but the rugged old pants still sport the brass buttons sewn onto the beltline… Read More

Each year, everyone complained that we were not spending enough time with them. Read More

Facial expressions, body language, joviality, and many gestures can go a long way. Read More

Two hundred dollars in - excuse the expression - cold, hard cash. Read More

On March 10, 2008, I had my annual mammogram. Never a pleasant experience, but tolerable, and I dutifully went every year without giving it much thought. That year was different. A few days afterwards the imaging center called me and said they wanted to do another mammogram of my right breast, so on March 20… Read More

The gradual decline of print newspapers is a great sadness to me. While I do read the news online, it is not the same. I can only describe it as a loss of serendipity. Read More