Suprise Me

My father was leaving the lecture hall when he stepped out of the doorway and a snowball—or more accurately, an ice ball—came hurling from the side and hit him directly across his open eye. Read More

I have never held, or even touched, a gun of any kind except for toy guns and water pistols. 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

Why the small beige box was in my mother's dresser I'll never know. The items pictured belonged to my father's father ... Read More

"You have cataracts, and you should have surgery as soon as possible." I was stunned. Only old people have cataracts, I thought. Read More

Dangerous! I read banned books – to protest their banning of course,  but also because they’re invariably such good reads! As you may know,  countless modern classics have been banned or challenged at one time or another,  among them The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,  As I Lay Dying,  Beloved,  The Catcher in the Rye,  The Color… Read More

What’s Your Story? Knowing I write,  my friend Betsy invited me to join Retrospect.   I was already blogging,  but writing to weekly prompts sounded intriguing. Yet little did I know how special Retro would become for me and writing would be only one part of the experience;  reading stories by fellow writers another;  and building friendships across… Read More

Seems to me that Covid-19 has set the stage for the emergence of new superstitions. Read More

Weejuns represented my journey in college to becoming my own person. Read More

Smell is the sense most connected to our inner brains, to our memories and emotions Read More