Suprise Me

When I came to the door, often the kids would greet me with "We don't want you, we want Karen!" Read More

We had a “retirement” prompt in early February, 2018, so the dates in this story are old, as you can ascertain by looking at the date stamps in the comments section. Also, since writing this story, there has been a “nanny” prompt, which I will link to within the body of the story at the… Read More

Postcards from a Secret Admirer I don’t remember how it started, or which one of us sent the first one,  but when we were in junior high my best friend Stephanie and I began sending each other picture postcards that we’d sign.   “Love from your Secret Admirer.” I know it sounds like a silly… Read More

Jews were told to remove their shoes and then shot by the Hungarian Arrow Cross and pushed into the river. As one of our guides said, “They disappeared.” Only their shoes remained behind. Read More

“Katie the kitten, a small tiger cat, Is asleep in the hall, all curled in a hat.” Thus began the little Golden Book seen in the Featured photo that David already owned when our neighbor’s cat had a litter of five kittens and we were gifted a cute little female. David was nearly two and… Read More

I had a somewhat tortured gynecological history (never regular periods, an ectoptic pregnancy in 1981, leaving me with one working Fallopian tube, followed nine months later, with the same IUD in place – the doctor never told me to remove it – by another pregnancy which Dan and I chose to abort for health reasons),… Read More

To say that baseball in the former Eastern bloc is developing would be a compliment. Read More

The cops stared, open-mouthed, at three 40-something bearded men and the motley trio of cars. Read More

After buying our first used car, a 1960 Dodge Dart with push button transmission, we learned the value of having a good mechanic. Read More

(Mom) was drawn to challenging recipes.  With mixed results.  Her sardine pie became the stuff of family legend, firmly anchoring the bottom end of the results scale. Read More