Suprise Me

...although the time shifts of DST have been regular occurrences my entire life, only since 2012 have they become somewhat important to me. Read More

When I was young, my older brother was a Cub Scout (wearing a uniform like the image I found online) during two elementary school years. Our mother was a den mother. I remembered neighborhood boys trooping into our basement for meetings and activities. Earlier this month, Rick told me the meetings were at school and… Read More

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"Then ... I can tell you," Channy said. "As a teenager, I survived the Killing Fields of Cambodia under the Kmer Rouge." Read More

If you say something embarrassing, you may be able to deny it plausibly. That's not the case if you embarrass yourself IN WRITING! 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

The current Ukrainian refugee crisis reminds me that my grandparents were refugees who left their families and the only homes they had known to come to America in the beginning of the 20th century. Read More

In the darkness, find light Sun shines, laughter peals Watch again and again Read More

I'll never forget the syllabus for that summer Russian literature class, which included War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, plus some stories by Pushkin, Gogol, and Chekov. Read More

I was 18 going on 19 my parents didn’t know I was going to Woodstock until they saw the cover of Life Magazine with me on the cover dancing naked in the mud at Woodstock. Anyway all the posters say 3 days but it was 4 days cuz Jimi played Monday morning and if you… Read More