Suprise Me

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

Sex, Drugs & Rock & Roll! It’s all happening again. Right now! It’s the ultimate do-over.  Okay, the sex is likely not the same.  The drugs aren’t, likely, the same.  The Rock & Roll, likely, but may be is, or not, the same.  That is, if you still listen to your favorite golden oldies, dare… Read More

Miss Garcelon decided, for whatever reason, that she was going to teach a bunch of six-year-olds about the human body. Read More

I would never have believed it -- and maybe I should have. Read More

Lacking a logical sequence Early on I broke In black and white and slow motion. Unaware of the cracks Pieces missing large and small I plowed forward Heedless, fearless, helter-skelter And whenever things went sideways Jumped on the bandwagon Blamed myself Just not good enough.   Repeat, repeat   Maybe halfway through  I stumbled over… Read More

My first thought when it appeared was chagrin Read More

As an educator, however, summer was always the reading season, and old habits die hard. Read More

Mardi Gras 2020 — The last night out Read More

My husband has shirts and sweatshirts hanging in this closet that fit into the category of “I thought I had a shirt that I used to wear with this sweater but it’s gone.” Read More

"A farm family ambience, sifting compost piles of memory, tilling soils of a late lamented culture..." Read More