Searching Stories

Dashed hopes for a sexual threesome one night in 1970, and what rats we men are. Read More

When Dave returned to the phone and told me the call had been from a “John Steptoe,” I thought my roommates were playing a practical joke. Read More

I’ll never have plastic surgery. I always say it’s because I’m determined to age gracefully, naturally, but mostly it’s because I can’t afford it, and I’m afraid of pain and/or a bad result. But each morning I Photoshop my mouth, turn it up at the corners for a sweet smile instead of the gash I… Read More

I’m not much for magic, although I love “believing” the magician, probably out of sympathy for the performer. I don’t try to figure out his or her tricks, and I don’t feel cheated. I tried to watch Guillermo Del Toro’s adaption of Nightmare Alley, an epic novel about the rise and fall from grace of… Read More

We circled and bobbed at his urging—arms, wings and paws in unison—as a giant red sun rose out of the water. Read More

We circled and bobbed at his urging---arms, wings and paws in unison---as a giant red sun rose out of the water. Read More

Santiago Calatrava's Milwaukee Art Museum is one of the strangest buildings I have ever seen or heard of. Read More

The Gates – Central Park, New York  2005 I’m a art-lover and avid museum-goer with what I guess is eclectic taste.   For example   I don’t like abstract art.  (See In the Abstract) And yet although I prefer representational art,  I also like art that’s a bit phantasmic like Franz Marc’s blue horses and Marc… Read More

Eva Le Gallienne as Peter Pan 1928 When my mother was young her parents took her to Broadway to see Peter Pan,  the title role played by the actress Eva Le Gallienne who famously flew on wires over the heads of the audience. The London-born Le G as she was called,  who died in 1991 at… Read More