Suprise Me

I don't wish to give the impression that I am compiling a screed against Perfidious Womankind... Read More

Autocorrect makes me crazy, always trying to improve on my pretty-perfect spelling. Like substituting the word ‘ass’ for ‘asp.’ Now why would it even bother?! Does it think I picked the wrong animal? And how will children ever learn to spell when Autocorrect cleans up after them? I have an editor’s eye for misspellings though… Read More

Third Degree Burn Last year at about this time I  burned the top of my foot.  It was very painful and it looked pretty bad,  and so I went to see Dr A,  my dermatologist. He examined the wound and asked me how it had happened.   I was too embarrassed to tell him the… Read More

Most of that evening is forgotten except for the music. Read More

I discovered that those key staff members I had interviewed had withheld documents and flat-out lied to me, to my face. People I knew and trusted. Read More

My father was posted far away to Canton, but they promised to write.  And write he did—at the rate of four or more times a week.  And she wrote back faithfully. Read More

Then the paramedics began running up the hill with stretchers and backboards. Still, no Cindy. Read More

What I do remember from my early teen years is being the Den Mother for my youngest brother’s Cub Scout pack. Read More

A woman was “looking at the corn” when she blew a stop sign and T-boned our car.  Read More

"What outfit do you cook for?" Read More