That Moment of Zen
I’ve had a lot of different jobs in my lifetime – editor, writer, dishwasher, cook – but the one I loved best was being a […]
What’s a Wegmans?
No sooner had the warm liquid, and the crumbs with it, touched my palate than a shudder ran through my whole body, and I stopped, […]
Dad Lost the Car
I was so happy when this beautiful magazine Breakwater Review accepted my story “Dad Lost the Car” because I love writing about my family, especially […]
Home Improvements
Oh no! The radiator cover is sloughing off its coat of paint, and there are spider cracks in the walls and ceiling of our bathroom. […]
The Denim Cutoffs That Made Me Cry
The photo on the left is my friend Susan and her husband, Ron, standing in front of his beloved Datsun 280Z. Last summer, when Stan […]
More Than Fifty Shades of Gray
This is Stephanie and me at our 20th college reunion—right around the time my first gray hairs started to come in. For whatever reason – […]
Give Me a Child at 7 and I Will Show You the Man
Perhaps you’ve heard the expression, attributed to both Aristotle and the Jesuits, “Give me a child at 7 and I will show you the man”? […]
Very Serious Naches
One of the best things about putting a story out into the world is all the amazing stories you get back in return. This month […]
Looking at Pictures with Stan
This month the literary magazine The Main Street Rag published an essay I’d been working on for a while that meant a lot to me. […]
All The Things Inside Me That Had to Get Out
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June, I was shattered. I couldn’t stop thinking about how a right I had taken for […]