Suprise Me

We ate ethereal soufflés and listened to the pianist sample the Great American Songbook till closing. Read More

When I looked out the front door, I saw a hip-deep lake where my yard had been ... Read More

Something is happening here but you don’t know what it is, Do you, Mister Jones — Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man, 1965   As a teenager I participated with the Quakers to ban the bomb. I celebrated the March on Washington and survived Mississippi Freedom Summer. I learned to play blues and folk… Read More

A relative of mine became famous as a result of a combination of factors that could not possibly have been anticipated. Read More

Growing up in a small mining town in California’s Mojave Desert, we didn’t have access to a lot of variety when it came to grocery shopping.  But my mom, in true post-World-War-2 fashion, was an enthusiastic supporter of every new thing that came on the market.  So despite our little store’s limited potential, we kids… Read More

The first step for new hires in the group was mastery of a seventy-page manual about alphabetization Seriously. Read More

Darkness is not "my old friend." Read More

The few who survived did so by eating the flesh of others. Read More

The case of wine slid across the carpet and the bottles fell out. With a crash, one broke. Read More

Awaken to the Dream Long before we are birthed to this life, to these bodies,  someone dreams us into existence. These ethereal threads that are woven throughout our life hold the patterns,  warp and weave of the holy meaning to our days and nights. When the sacred spinning, the endless calling that  finally finds voice… Read More