Suprise Me

A comforter Of mottled gray-black clouds To hide beneath. Read More

Each time, shortly after I saw a rainbow, something bad would happen. Thus began what my husband and I called "the year of calamity and death." Read More

“Will someone tell that guy we’re trying to eat and that I’ll buy him a drink if he’ll shut the hell up!” Read More

A lesson was learned on Dover Street Read More

We didn't think too much of it; at least, I didn't think much of it until ... Read More

I’ve never been much of a tourist. From my days residing in the Haight-Ashbury to my thin-air existence in the Colorado Rockies, from my street musician days in North Beach to my current residence under the Hollywood sign (nope, not homeless), I’ve been an objet du tourism more frequently than I’ve been a tourist. Nothin’… Read More

If you are someone who disliked gym, join me on a little fantasy trip. You arrive at high school for the first day of your junior year. Looking across the street from the school entrance toward the gym building, you see … a pile of rubble! The gym building stands no more. Is this just… Read More

Of brothers and a war Read More

My family was one of the last in our community to get a television.  Although my Dad was quite a “news wonk”, his current events information came from newspapers. and radio. Even after we got a t.v.  I don’t recall our family watching the  news very much. The legendary  names of the broadcasting greats from… Read More

There was surely some apprehension people felt while waiting for medical care, but people often chatted with the front desk or each other and in a small town, it wasn’t unusual to run into someone you knew. Read More