Suprise Me

Superstitions are heightened during stressful times, for example, when expecting a child. Read More

Facebook. Such a silly thing when it started, just a way for college students to check each other out, find out if someone was available or in a relationship, whatever. When it expanded beyond those with an “edu” email address and became available to all, I joined, at the invitation of a friend who wanted me… Read More

Snow Day Kids love snow days when the schools are closed,  and so do we teachers. One winter a few years ago we had lots of snow and every night we eagerly watched the weather report for the listing of school closures When we did have a snow day my colleague Doug decided to spend… Read More

 I wrote a series of letters to my mother around Mother’s Day, ten years after her death: my attempt to get to a place of forgiveness.  Dear Mom, I guess we were a mismatch from the beginning. You wanted a boy; you got me: a scabby-kneed tree-climber, a girl who played with mud and tar… Read More

"We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon." Read More

Menemsha Sunset Like most of us I’m sure,  the one thing I can’t leave home without is my cell phone.   If I forget mine,  I rush back to get it, and can’t imagine how we lived without them, or their precursors our car phones.   So here’s a car phone story,   but first let… Read More

He took a bite and chewed it, slowly and deliberately, as the rest of us talked. Then another. Read More

In the last eighteen months, there have been so many tragedies that I couldn't even say which was the worst. Read More

The incident that led me to ditch the skirt occurred in the mid-1980s as I was driving the Honda Accord home ... Read More

More of a "boof." Read More