Suprise Me

In violation of the law, the ads were "segregated" ... Someone had to do something, we agreed, but what? Read More

Inspired by John Zussman's republishing his story from the 2017 prompt "Let's Put On a Show." Read More

One of the mothers made these costumes. Yes, I still have mine. Read More

Sometimes, as in the case of my high school math class, time stopped. Read More

I am an inveterate romantic. Dan teases that I weep at Hallmark commercials. He’s not wrong. I am sentimental. I save everything. I have a dried sprig of flowers from my wedding bouquet, pressed into my Bride’s Book. I have a long memory, for good and bad. Dan can make grand gestures when he chooses… Read More

We have been friends since that fateful day when we both decided to take a walk to the park at the same time. Read More

This is the only place I have ever lived where any decent snowstorm causes people to panic and abandon their cars all over the streets. Read More

I never asked to be a movie critic. And yet it happened. People don’t believe me when I say this; they assume movie reviewing is such a plum job that I must have scrambled and hustled to get there. Not really. In 1991 I’d been working at the San Francisco Chronicle seven years when the… Read More

The summer before my senior year in college I worked as a counselor at a Jewish overnight camp near Ann Arbor, MI called Camp Tamarack. I was assigned to a cabin in the Pioneer Girls, the oldest girls at the camp. The group was situated a little away from the main camp. There was no… Read More

Once an art teacher had given our class a homework assignment to collect photos for a collage, including a baby picture. When I’d asked my mom for one, she’d told me my baby pictures had been lost in a flood; yet, here they are. Read More