Suprise Me

Life After 60 by
200
(346 Stories)

Prompted By Turning Points

/ Stories

Life After 60 Like most of us I’m sure my life has had many turning points  – one certainly was leaving home after college,  another my first job.  And then marriage,  and parenthood,  and that three ring circus as a working woman/wife/mother! And then in my early 60s I retired after my long career as…
Read More

44 Curzon Street by
200
(346 Stories)

Prompted By Travels

/ Stories

44 Curzon Street Our son Noah was 7 when we took him to London for the first time.   For our stay I  booked what was called a serviced flat at 44 Curzon Street in a lovely Mayfair neighborhood near Green Park. We arrived late in the evening with a very sleepy kid in tow,  and…
Read More

Silence is not Golden by
100
(165 Stories)

Prompted By Silence

/ Stories

You know this quote.
Read More

As Time Goes By by
25
(34 Stories)

Prompted By Rewatchable Movies

/ Stories

You do know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together and blow.
Read More

Repeating Fifth Grade by (2 Stories)

Prompted By Favorite Teacher

/ Stories

I started teaching on my 21st birthday, and my 36 students were just 10 or 11 years younger than I.
Read More

Totem Salmon — reinhabiting the Mattole River watershed by
100
(170 Stories)

Prompted By Recycling

/ Stories

I wrote this piece for the Retro prompt "Gardens," but I've posted it here to celebrate the salmon that reinhabited the Mattole watershed as a form of recycling.
Read More

Monk, Punk, and the San Francisco Deaf Club by
100
(170 Stories)

Prompted By In the Band

/ Stories

"...one band, one club, and one gig."
Read More

Hair by
10
(24 Stories)

Prompted By Hair

/ Stories

Eighth graders took PE, but we didn’t shower. Freshmen in high school showered. Fifty years later, that seems no big deal. But. The summer before my freshman year, I still didn’t have hair on my balls. Determination was my long suit, my key to success. I willed hair to grow on my balls. It didn’t…
Read More

White Gloves by
200
(359 Stories)

Prompted By Manners

/ Stories

My mother and her two sisters had excellent manners. They always knew what to wear for any occasion, how to behave, how to write a lovely thank you note. Very proper women. And these they taught to their children as well. I used to call them the “white glove ladies”, as you can see from…
Read More

First Love by (3 Stories)

Prompted By Teenager in Love

/ Stories

Sammy was my first love (and my first heartbreak). I had just turned 14 and was in the ninth grade at a small coed school where I was not popular with boys. Sammy, the cousin of a classmate, went to a different (all boys) school. Our mutual infatuation was quick and intense. We were inseparable,…
Read More
<< Older stories Newer stories >>