Suprise Me

Once you are on the Pali highway you are stuck behind whatever you are stuck behind. Read More

The offer we couldn't refuse: the Eco-Freaks needed a large truck, and the mobster had one. Read More

The magic of Jim Henson's creations affected my composing style in many ways! Read More

Like matter, gravitational energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Read More

United Cigar, run by the Cohen family, was packed with cigars and cigarettes, all types of magazine, and oh, the candy! Read More

They were experiencing a heat wave - it only got down to -30 degrees Celsius. Read More

Flowers on the Windshield  After more than a year together I knew our marriage wasn’t working.   As we had no kids,  no communal property to speak of it,  and little contention between us,  it was a relatively simple divorce.  The grounds Alan and I agreed on were irreconcilable differences – which I guess is… Read More

Originally this story was titled “Closing Out the ’70s in my 20s.” It began as follows: I know you are surprised that I didn’t use a song for the title of this story. But I just remembered this particular New Year’s Eve while I was in the shower this morning, and wanted to get the… Read More

Duck and cover seemed the height of folly, and I'd never felt immortal. Read More

"When Anastacia was six, a first grader at Ulloa Elementary, she watched a movie that forever shifted her worldview." Read More