Suprise Me

My extreme introvert's response was to focus on solitary sports like bicycling and track, and on pastimes that none of us could actually play. Read More

I met Christie and Emily in 1965 in Intermediate Girls at the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan. We’ve been friends ever since. I moved up to High School Girls in 1967. They both remained in the Intermediate Division, knowing that they would be leads in the Operetta; and so they were. I wanted the… Read More

Trump signs are thankfully MIA, and Biden signs are relatively rare, since this preference is assumed. Read More

"As soon as your brother passes," Cathy said, "you call me up, and I’ll take good care of him." I’d noticed that the hospice people also talked in a matter-of-fact way about his death. “When he passes, you’ll have to do x and y,” they’d say, as if he were going on a two-week vacation. It was strangely comforting, as if this were the natural next step and not something to be dreaded. Read More

She captioned the needlepoint "Hobby Time" because when I was asked what my hobbies were, I generally said "sleeping." Read More

Ever confuse coincidence with causality? It can be fun. Somebody you meet on a demo in Madison, Wisconsin shows up at a concert weeks later in San Francisco. Wow! The ex-girlfriend of a city radical materializes unannounced on your rural commune. Both of you are amazed… too weird! People once directed me to the sleeping… Read More

“Will someone tell that guy we’re trying to eat and that I’ll buy him a drink if he’ll shut the hell up!” Read More

Santiago Calatrava's Milwaukee Art Museum is one of the strangest buildings I have ever seen or heard of. Read More

With apologies to Julie Andrews. Read More

Eighth graders took PE, but we didn’t shower. Freshmen in high school showered. Fifty years later, that seems no big deal. But. The summer before my freshman year, I still didn’t have hair on my balls. Determination was my long suit, my key to success. I willed hair to grow on my balls. It didn’t… Read More