Suprise Me

The neighborhoods are beginning to welcome Paayme Paxaayt back into their lives. Read More

Super Bowl,  Final Four,  World Series – it’s all the same to us sports widows, so here’s another sad tale! A few years ago my friends Pat and David and I were planning a reunion for our former teaching colleagues at Jane Addams,  the small inner-city high school where we first met in the 1980s.… Read More

Living in the suburbs and going to high school in the nearest city with friends and activities spread around the area, I really needed a driver’s license. Of course, limited access to a car meant limited benefit, but step by step. Driver’s ed brought a break on insurance rates but was not mandatory. Since my… Read More

Sometimes you have to work with them. Then, separation is impossible. Read More

Sorry, I can’t think of a song for this story, it’s too solemn a subject. On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was in Birmingham, AL, for the quarterly meeting of the Environment Sector of the Electric Power Research Institute.  After breakfast at the hotel, a group of us piled into a van to… Read More

Growing up in a small mining town in California’s Mojave Desert, we didn’t have access to a lot of variety when it came to grocery shopping.  But my mom, in true post-World-War-2 fashion, was an enthusiastic supporter of every new thing that came on the market.  So despite our little store’s limited potential, we kids… Read More

Stop, drop and roll is what the tell you when you're in a fire, but what's the right thing to do when you're under fire by a long time friend who knows just a bit more about money than you...and isn't afraid to tell you! This happened today. Read More

Both our mothers believed in miracles. Read More

When some random country prints a stamp commemorating your performance, you've made an impact. Read More

When I saw this week's prompt, I immediately thought, in NFL parlance, this would be a "bye week" for me. Read More