Faith, for me, is a complicated topic. As I said in an earlier Retrospect story, I mostly don’t believe in God. But for some reason I’m not quite ready to rule out the possibility entirely. For instance, all through my years in school, when I was nervous about an exam, I would talk to God, saying “if…
Read More
Suprise Me
Tradition
Prompted By Faith
/ Stories
Faith, for me, is a complicated topic. As I said in an earlier Retrospect story, I mostly don’t believe in God. But for some reason I’m not quite ready to rule out the possibility entirely. For instance, all through my years in school, when I was nervous about an exam, I would talk to God, saying “if…
Read More
The Little Old Lady from Pasadena
Prompted By Ageism
/ Stories
As I often do when I am writing a Retrospect story, I started out by googling “songs about [name of prompt].” For Ageism, I could find almost nothing; apparently it isn’t a topic that songwriters are inspired by. But I did find a reference to “The Little Old Lady from Pasadena” as being the first…
Read More
And Things That Go Bump in the Night
Prompted By Vacation or Staycation from Hell
/ Stories
And Things That Go Bump in the Night It’s been one week since we started our unplanned Covid 19 quarantine/staycation and I’m still reeling with the disbelief and the worry. And each day brings news of people we know or of well-known personalities who’ve been affected. Yesterday we learned of the coronavirus-related death at 81…
Read More
Knock Knock
Prompted By Random Acts of Kindness
/ Stories
Possibly a loner by nature, I never mixed with the neighbors much, just a cool wave and a smile if I spotted one as I backed out the driveway, a word or two when we’d pass while walking our dogs. I’m not the kind to borrow a cup of sugar. Since we began sheltering in…
Read More
Babysitting with Coffee, Tea, or Me?
Prompted By Working
/ Stories
I loved reading about the very friendly skies while the little kids were asleep.
Read More
Cheeseburger in Paradise
Prompted By Learning To Cook
/ Stories
I realized there is nothing very hard about cooking as long as you follow the recipe (and don't pick a recipe with too many steps).
Read More
The Jersey Shore
Prompted By The Beach
/ Stories
As a city kid in Philadelphia there was nothing like going "down the shore."
Read More
Wow! I really loved your show…
Prompted By How We Met
/ Stories
The princess lost her startled expression, nodded, and looked deeper. I could see her think, Is this guy for real? How does he know about German expressionism? He’s a musician, for chrissake!
Read More
GOAT (still)
Prompted By Sports
/ Stories
Haters gonna hate, but I gotta tell you, it is fun to root for a winning team. Over the last couple of years, I have become quite the Patriots fan, political bedfellows aside. I grew up in a household with a father who watched football, baseball and golf constantly, then I married a huge sports…
Read More
The Band, The Basketball and The Brotherhood
Prompted By In the Band
/ Stories

