Suprise Me

The copy kept referencing a "head shop." Of course, they didn't know what that meant in the 1960s in the US. Read More

At 53, if someone had asked me who Vincent Van Gogh was, I’d have said, “he’s the guy who cut off his ear.” Shortly after my first divorce, I took a lady on a date to the Getty; see some art and go to dinner. We looked at paintings of famous old dead men and… Read More

Honestly, if I didn’t skirt around the truth when I was a teenager I never would’ve had any fun. Was I dishonest? On occasion, yes. And on one occasion I got out of a jam by being honest after I got myself into said jam by cheating. Let me explain. For some reason I no… Read More

Allowing kids to name their pets leads to the most creative and special pet names. Read More

Last week I looked at the hula hoop leaning lazily against my bedroom door. I looked at myself in my floor length mirror, sucked my belly in and was saddened to see that my once-slim waist was still pinchable. I decided it was time to begin a hula hoop regimen to take care of that.… Read More

Here are two fairy tale endings to stories I wrote last month. Read More

Actually, even as a lifelong Democrat (my parents indoctrinated me well), I kind of still like Ike. Read More

Doodles around the edge of the exam plugged “Rule, Britannia” Read More

Seeing the documentary movie version the summer of 1970 shaped my Woodstock experience. Read More

With apologies to Ms Franklin Read More