FIXING TYPOS IN MY LIFE STORY
Worlds Colliding –There’s work you and home you, café you and hospital you, friends you and strangers you. In this week’s writing challenge, tell us about a time when two or more of your “yous” ran...
View ArticlePOSTSCRIPT: THE JONESTOWN MASSACRE
There has been an upsurge of interest in this subject in the past few months, coinciding with the discovery of the remains of some previously unidentified victims at a funeral home in Delaware. So...
View ArticleLIVING IN THE WORLD OF THE MARCHING MORONS
Curve Balls – When was the last time you were completely stumped by a question, a request, or a situation you found yourself in? How did you handle it? At my age, I am baffled much of the time. Life is...
View ArticleNO GREAT DIVIDE
The Great Divide – The Daily Prompt for Monday, September 29, 2014 When reading for fun, do you usually choose fiction or non-fiction? Do you have an idea why you prefer one over the other? There is no...
View ArticleEVERYTHING MEANS SOMETHING. MAYBE.
Early Friday morning, I was dreaming. In the dream, I was talking to a particularly annoying telemarketer and couldn’t get her off the phone. I was wondering — in my dream — why I persist in answering...
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IMAGINARY FRIEND – Weekly Writing Challenge When I was little, I had imaginary playmates. I talked to them. They followed me around. I was never lonely because I had friends who understood me. After I...
View ArticleHOME IS WHERE THOSE OTHER PEOPLE LIVE
I got married in 1965, between my sophomore and junior year of college. Our first home was an apartment near the university, one of two identical brick structures. We lived in 2-Q, located at the far...
View ArticleDARK AND STORMY NIGHT
Trio No. 3 – Today you can write about anything, in whatever genre or form, but your post must mention a dark night, your fridge, and tears (of joy or sadness; your call). It was a dark and stormy...
View ArticleTHINGS THAT WENT BUMP IN OUR NIGHT
From ghoulies and ghosties And long-legged beasties And things that go bump in the night Good Lord, deliver us! – Traditional Scottish Prayer I’ve never met a ghoul, and I have questions about...
View ArticleWESTERN BAD ASS VIOLENCE FIX – TOMBSTONE, 1993
The first movie I remember seeing with my mom was Gunfight at OK Corral. It was a busy day at the Utopia on Union Turnpike in Queens. Not a big theater, especially back when movie theaters were...
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