Suprise Me

Recycling is not really the best solution to resource conservation, re-using is even better.  Doing with less “stuff” is even better than re-using. Read More

We ate in the kitchen at a big round table that had plenty of room, even when there were seven of us there. Read More

After five hours of nothing to see but clouds and water, it always took my breath away. Read More

I have not been married since 1994 so as long as I am going back in time I’ll go way back in time. In ancient Rome, it was believed that the bride was easy prey for vengeful spirits who would harm her. In order to confuse those spirits and chase them away, the Romans “invented”… Read More

We were now very lost, and out of time. Read More

I walked around the house looking for antiques. We have a few, but I don't own any of them. However the house is older than I am. Read More

I helped Mom lick S&H Green stamps and put them in many, many books, but I have no memory of what she traded them in for. As I scanned the Internet, some thermoses looked familiar, so perhaps she traded them for those and the matching cooler, which would be used at Memorial Day picnics at… Read More

This is not a piece of my own creative work. But if you put up a prompt about one’s experience with time zone changes, and one of your respondents to the prompt has a brother who has made a living with a comedy routine on that topic–well, what did you expect? Here is my brother… Read More

It’s the Age of Aquarius, a 60s party, get your flower power on ... Read More

...as the ring transitioned from the world of the real and visible to the underwater world of Neptune and Ariel and Moby Dick... Read More