Category: Fiction

The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles issued driver’s licenses to 1,905 dead people. The Boston Globe It was one of those miscues that causes you, in retrospect, to slam your palm to your forehead and […]

High school graduation time is here, which means that over-achieving young women across America are preparing for the next phase of their lives–matriculation (which is not as painful as it sounds) at an expensive four-year […]

Supermodel Gisele Bundchen had “to hold really still whilst makeup was applied to her armpits.”                     The Boston Herald It was 6:30 a.m., and my CD player-alarm clock sounded the opening notes of Albeniz’s “Asturias,” […]

Sometimes, it takes a tragedy to change the way we view the world. For me, it was the story of David Sharp. Sharp was a climber in distress who died 300 feet from the summit […]