Suprise Me

My first thought when it appeared was chagrin Read More

Hair was my rebellion! Read More

  I was watching the tiny rain drops sprinkle the surface of the water on the swimming pool this afternoon and all of a sudden I was whisked away to a day when I was 12 years old standing alone in some green rubber rain gear by a small lake my father built for me.… Read More

You can make up your own play from scratch. It’s different from interpreting other people's words. Read More

“Thank you, doctor,” I said via my own expressive raised eyebrow, accented by genuflection.  I went back outside. Read More

I imagined his job consisted mainly of dealing with The Bucking Bronco Boys Read More

Crossing the bottleneck of a bridge required maneuvering through a tangle of feeder lanes, timing the rush hour, and most of all having good traffic karma. Read More

He must have noticed that the word “kidnapping” shocked us. He took the time to give us the word-for-word definition from the California Criminal Code: “Moving another person a substantial distance, without the person's consent, by means of force or fear.” Read More

Veterans were synonymous with WWII when I was a child, the good war against the unimaginably evil Hitler but also the horror of the atom bomb.  I don’t think I was the only one who wished for “world peace” when I blew out birthday candles or participated in student United Nations. Read More

To my shame, I tried to go along to get along Read More