Suprise Me

As I made that move, the brunette cutie to my right clasped her hand around my wrist and whispered "that is SO annoying!" Read More

As an added bonus, Jiminy Cricket taught me how to spell "encyclopedia." Read More

Its kind of crazy how far we've come since the first un-manned space flights. It seems like eons ago, but it is burned so deeply into my mind that it also seems like yesterday. Read More

May my mother not box my ears. May the traditionalists in the party crowd notice nothing amiss (except possibly rouge highlights in the salami crust). Read More

Body and Soul Our generation may indeed be the last to remember when family doctors made house calls with their little black bags and really got to know their patients.  Nowadays with HMOs and PPOs,  and pre-authorization,  and all the other health insurance red tape and rigamarole,  it may seem harder to find a doctor… Read More

I can't think of one fairy tale that is my favorite, but here are two that have special meaning to me for different reasons. Read More

Oh, there’s also a swan (a brave tenor) who sings of roasting in agony on a spit. Read More

For the first and only time, I saw humans flying, literally levitating around the room, so graceful that their bare feet never made a sound when they landed. Read More

Thanks to a program that no longer exists, I was able to attend the local college while still a senior in high school. After filling out the necessary paperwork and expressing my urgent need to study Italian—a class not offered at my school—I was approved to begin classes on campus in the fall of 1968.… Read More

Board games with dice, mah jongg with dice, and the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York. Read More