It’s In the Wiring
It was a bone-chilling night and I had just poured myself into my favorite chair in front of a toasty fire. “Hon — I can’t believe I forgot to pick up another jar of sauce on the way home. Can you run...
View ArticleCharlie
The name tag read “Charlie” … but the pleasant moonpie face that looked at me through round black rimmed glasses was accompanied by too many contradictions. The short-cropped brushy hair was a little...
View ArticleWhere Have All The Children Gone?
In my lifetime, I’ve learned to believe nothing I hear and only about half of what I see. So when the T.V. ad for “Your Baby Can Read” came on, I figured it was a comedy spoof or maybe the announcer...
View ArticleJake and Me
In the movie “On Golden Pond”, a confused, aging Henry Fonda character looks at a picture of himself taken several years before and asks, “Who the hell is that?” Seeing some white-bearded stranger...
View ArticlePatent Pending
I’ve been told that when I retire I need to ‘reinvent’ myself. The recommendation would seem to imply that, somehow, I was invented in the first place, like a lightbulb or a washing machine. Actually,...
View ArticleSanta and Me
That year, I wanted a Lionel Santa Fe diesel for Christmas more than anything else in the world. Johnny Schumann and his dad had a train layout in their basement that was so big, they needed pop-up...
View ArticleGolden Oldies
It was a perfect dive … arms fully extended, head down and four inches of rock-hard ice rising to meet me at warp speed! The emergency room doctor later called it a “Superman”, although my instant...
View ArticleDon’t Just Do Something – Stand There!
I finally solved one of life’s little mysteries last Saturday, while loitering in the middle of our kitchen. “What are you doing?” Vigi asked quietly, as I stood there sort of swaying like a new calf...
View ArticleA Teething Thing
As you tread the long road between first tooth and last, you stumble into some things that most of us are never really ready to do … you just do them and work out the consequences along the way....
View ArticleA Cup ‘O Somethingorother
Santa had come and gone. The children were nestled all snug in their beds but the sugar plums that once danced in their heads had been devoured and, by now, the resulting ‘high’ subsided settling...
View ArticleThings That Go Thump In Your Heart
She wasn’t my first love but she was the first female to inflict womanly pain upon my soul. My first love was Lucy Williams in kindergarten. We once shared a mat during rest period and a couple of...
View ArticleThe Mansion
It was a time when ghosts and goblins were real, penny candy still cost only a penny at the corner drugstore and holidays like Halloween were a season, not just a single day. Any kid who didn’t have a...
View ArticleThe House On Harrison Street
It was a time when ghosts and goblins were real, penny candy was still just a penny and holidays like Halloween were an entire season, not just a single day. Any kid who didn’t have a haunted house in...
View ArticleCloset Santa Claus
Someone I know once told her kids that Santa Claus was dead! Can you believe that? Now, this is the same person who didn’t allow costumes or trick or treating on Halloween because it was a...
View ArticleSanta and Me
That year, I wanted a Lionel Santa Fe diesel for Christmas more than anything else in the world. Johnny Schumann and his dad had a train layout in their basement that was so big, they needed pop-up...
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