Suprise Me

How multi-generational Worths lost their Spelling Bees! Read More

We’ve all known since we were little kids that there is magic in storytelling—in finding out what happens next. Read More

After decades, I’m in trouble again. Read More

At dinner time, dads cup their hands around their mouths and call their kids home. Read More

You ever meet someone who brags about not reading? Like, it’s some kind of badge of honor? “Yeah I haven’t touched a book since I finished coloring in those dinosaur pictures at school. Turns out, crayons are all the education you really need!” Reading is not some punishment for getting bad grades, it’s a portal… Read More

Shy people often come alive through acting. I was no exception. Though a skirt-hugger as a little girl, I started singing publicly as a 7 year old, and acting at about the same time. Everyone thought I had some talent and I was encouraged to pursue it. I was passionate about it. With the stage… Read More

In 1971, I was living in Berkeley, California. I attended classes on campus and also worked there as I put myself through school at UC Berkeley. I lived in a house with three roommates, a large tank of tropical fish, my two cats, and an Old English sheepdog. My boyfriend spent his freshman year away,… Read More

Could someone do that, steal who you were, and why would they do that? Read More

Vaccines arrive. Like Brylcreem: a little jab'll do ya. Read More

My first computer was a Morrow Micro Decision, the best desktop on the market in the early 1980s. Read More