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I had a dream where I was a contestant on The Voice Australia which is weird because b) I don’t sleep and c) I don’t know where Australia is. I’m too busy playing Angry Birds […]
Category: Fiction
The Upside To Procrastination
My grandparents lived in a house with a detached garage. It sat at the bottom of a steep driveway, maybe fifty yards behind the main house. The structure was your standard built-from-wood affair, but it […]
The Birds & The Bees – The Truth
When you’re the parents of imaginary kids, you know that the day is going to come when you’re going to have to explain about the birds and the bees. This is my first attempt and […]
The Things We Do For Love
I openly admit I’m a Dancing with the Stars groupie. I stayed up to watch the 2-hour finale and like many of you hoped Meryl and Maks would win the coveted Mirror Ball trophy – […]
Bullies and the First Day of School
I have a girl’s name. Trust me, you’re not the first to notice. I wasn’t even the first to notice. I found out on the first day of first grade. My parents (the perpetrators) never […]
Try Waking Up In A City That Always Sleeps
The other day I was taking the Amtrak train from Southern Connecticut to New York City. When I saw the skyline I instantly thought of Frank Sinatra singing “New York, New York.” Here’s what I […]
Traffic Woes and Backhoes!
Can anything be more of a patience test than sitting in rush-hour traffic? You come off the highway ramp at 55 MPH (I wrote 55 just in case there are any State Troopers reading this) and you […]
What is seen, is not invisible.
Some of the best things I have never seen have been invisible. There is a certain way of doing things that cannot be seen with the naked eye. But if you look, if you really […]
A Novel Solution To Saving Camp
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK There I was, happily whacking away at the keyboard, working on a story that poked a little fun at the space opera genre, when they tried to shut down my […]