My family has had a few feuds, but they were long ago and I only heard of them as rumors and legends when I was very young.  One involved a marriage deemed unsuitable for ethnic reasons, resulting in disowning of a daughter and lifelong estrangement of grandkids from grandparents. This prompted my Dad to say,… Read More

I'd like to say that it was a summer out of a Ray Bradbury tale... Read More

Like any kid, I banged back and forth among various “what do I want to be when I grow up?” fantasies. Read More

I remember her funeral Read More

My home town was home to a large, and now defunct, youth organization. Read More

STILL cannot post comments on other people's stories, so... Read More

I was not at all nervous; my fear of flying, like so many of them, developed later. Read More

I STILL cannot post comments on other people’s stories, so…. Comments on “Favorite Teacher” prompt. Educator of the Year – Remembering Milton by Dana Susan Lehrman A very evocative tale for me…my grade school had a Milton of its own, although he was the shop teacher, not custodial staff. Mr. Crawley never got full peer-to-peer… Read More

Behind the counter were two very attractive, serious looking women in crisp white lab coats... Read More

I, in the throes of the Dunning-Kruger Effect*, decided that it was obviously the bike that was blocking my path to Über-ridership. Read More