Suprise Me

It’s so humiliating When you are wanting to enact your role as part of a “recently married couple” And instead, you find yourself in a different kind of drama altogether Read More

“Twenty-eight dollars!” I screamed.  “We put in 100 hours between us and we split twenty-eight dollars?”  Read More

Growing up, we learned a lot from TV, but we also just had a lot of kid fun with locally produced shows. Read More

Science calls it Iris Recognition technology. Most humans call it looking into the windows of the soul. Read More

My very first car was a 1953 Chevy Truck we named Wilbur. Not much to say other than that right now, but it was a cool car to have in high school! Read More

The people of "La Po’lvora," and especially the children, will always remain in my heart and mind as exemplars of the utmost courtesy and compassion in a time of dire need. They showed us something much deeper than just “good manners.” Read More

My Heart Remembers My Grandmother’s Hotel The leader of a writing workshop I took years ago asked us to think back to our earliest memories and write about a place our heart remembers.   I thought of my grandmother’s hotel in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York where I spent childhood summers.  (See My Game… Read More

Shortly after she began, I heard a soft sniffle from somewhere in the lecture hall. A minute after that, another. Read More

All seemed very normal in this town, as long as you stayed in your lane. Read More

Looking over the ways I have celebrated the New Year, it’s hard to remember why it used to be such a big deal. Read More