The cockatiel had known all along, what the parrot had been searching for so intently wasn’t on the outside amongst the brightly colored feathers at all…. It was on the inside all along. Read More

"Bartender, drinks on the house for the entire castle!" Read More

A beautiful green-headed hummingbird has landed on a branch beside one of your bones. Read More

I stood there in the heavy underbrush with tears in my eyes and a broken heart.... Read More

“Excuse me… there seems to be a mistake on my paycheck. A big mistake.” Read More

I remember watching as the husband and wife quietly looked inside that envelope, and saw they had tears in their eyes as he said, "We don't know what to say. I am embarrassed and ashamed that I have put my family through this.“ Read More

When we first think of hair, we assume the reference is to that which is on our head but in reality that’s not always the case. It was about 1971 and I had just asked a beautiful Stanford student out on a date. To tell the truth, I never thought in a million years she would… Read More

“Will someone tell that guy we’re trying to eat and that I’ll buy him a drink if he’ll shut the hell up!” Read More

By the time I got back to sunny California I was dressed like someone who was colorblind and had been given a gift certificate to a goodwill clothing store that was going out of business. Read More

  I was watching the tiny rain drops sprinkle the surface of the water on the swimming pool this afternoon and all of a sudden I was whisked away to a day when I was 12 years old standing alone in some green rubber rain gear by a small lake my father built for me.… Read More