Suprise Me

The point of all this sad history is to reflect on what happened this weekend, when my 20-year old son asked me to help him with his ballot, and I said "sure." Read More

The schtick was to make the parents guilty that their children were falling behind in school and things would get dire if they didn't get the encyclopedia. Read More

Remember how, in her 70s, she walked four extra blocks in a snowstorm to save a few pennies on toilet paper? Read More

... my name was called, the first and last time I won this organization's raffle. The people at the table were delighted I won ... Read More

On the weekends, at a dance, away from school, --in the real world, we would pull that length of hair out from behind and drape it over our ears. Wild! Read More

Next hurtle – what contractor in his right mind would undertake this project with such an unrealistic budget and very tight timeline? It was now June and we needed to open the school in September. Read More

“Don’t Walk Under That Ladder”   Alright, ladies and gents, gather ’round. Today’s dissertation is on the peculiar phenomenon of superstition. You know, those little habits that make grown adults clutch a rabbit’s foot like it’s the winning lottery ticket, or avoid black cats like they’re Harvey Weinstein at a kindergarten graduation. Now, as a… Read More

How do you reconcile heartbreak and fear, sadness and jeopardy, and the sense that everything is ending? You don’t. Read More

My boss, Holly, raced to her office and closed the door. I had not been working long at the radio station, but I knew this was a bad sign. She had come back from her hair appointment. I didn’t actually hear sobbing, but then again the doors in our offices were pretty solid. Holly had… Read More

One hot summer, I built a Mount and Brungs Proportional Diluter. Read More