This will be a pretty short story because, as my title pretty obviously foreshadows, I don’t have much to say on this prompt, grammatically or otherwise.  For reasons I will discuss below, I have just never been into political buttons and the like. As Retro readers must know, I am not lacking in political convictions,… Read More

When I first considered this prompt, I realized I had already written three stories that fairly heavily addressed the issue of life pre-computers.  Two are stories about how I did not learn how to type, and the third was about snail mail and love letters. However, I am reticent to re-publish older stories if I… Read More

Freud either did or did not say “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar” — or was that Groucho Marx? In any event, I have generally believed that “shoes are just shoes” and not metaphors, icons, status symbols or whatever.  However…. As I pondered this prompt and how it related to me, I realized that… Read More

My mother loved tennis.  There was much more to her than that, but that was a very important part of her being.  When thinking about this “Final Farewell” prompt, I realized just how prominent tennis had been in our farewell to her and thought this could make an interesting story. First, some relevant backstory.  My… Read More

I have had my share of the usual rites of passage: no bar mitzvah, but two weddings, some funerals (not mine), and a ton of graduations.  Of these, and passing the inherent sadness of funerals, I can quickly identify which was the worst experience for me: my law school “graduation” from Columbia Law School (“CLS”)… Read More

Talk about prescient.  Before this prompt was posted (I swear it), in writing my “Lost and Found” story about how to find lost stuff, I noted the following: “A seeming digression which isn’t really a digression. In fact, it is really the whole point of this story. If any of the other Retro members reading… Read More

I am a very methodical, organized person, or at least try to be. A place for everything and everything in its place kind of guy. Read More