Suprise Me

Sensory images congealing into a poem about my Grandmother's Maine Read More

  We learned long ago that going out on New Year’s Eve was just something we didn’t want to do. Everything was overpriced and you always ran the risk of drunk drivers on the road. So we stayed in with friends and cooked. When David was a baby, I had a few couples over and… Read More

Hula hoops and Twiggy lashes, but not at the same time. Read More

Michigan seems like a dream to me now. —Simon & Garfunkel, "America" Read More

It's lonely out here. I look up and down the sidewalks, both sides of the street, and I'm the only newspaper there. Read More

You Better Shop Around and Ten Other Useful Bits of Advice Read More

All I can safely say is… no one was killed. Read More

Once it got dark, the kids would hit the residential streets in roving bands gone wild, armed with big bags, running to each porchlight to cry, “Trickertreat!" at the door. Read More

Get paid to blow things up?? He was in! Read More

The traffic going into London for the morning commute is insane.  The roads in London are impossible (and no GPS then).  Finding the cute little hotel in the Bloomsbury District would have been a challenge if we were awake and oriented; we were not.  Read More