book review
An Antedote to 2020 — Make Me Laugh
Well, well, well. We all thought that would never happen. The end of 2020. What a year. I suppose there’s someone out there who is thinking, “This was my best…
A Time to Yell
About a dozen or more years ago, on Christmas Eve, I found myself in the emergency room with blinding pain in my abdomen. I put up with the pain for…
Jeopardy!
Of all the things I’ve accomplished in my life, the one and only thing that anyone will care about is that I was on Jeopardy![1]. In my office, I have…
Book Review — The Silver Box
The Silver Box by Margi Preus is the third in the Northwoods Mystery series for Middle Grade readers. Francesca Frye, known as Francie to her friends, is reminiscent of Nancy…
Wash Your Hands
It’s not like washing our hands is something we only figured out was a thing during this pandemic. We were always supposed to wash our hands regularly. After we went…
Yellow Camaro
I am 50 years old and I have owned a grand total of four cars in my life. The first was a 1985 Oldsmobile Delta 88 with a hood the…
Secrets
“Well we all have a face that we hide away forever. And we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.” ~ Billy Joel “The Stranger” “What I…
I’ll Drink to That
I probably ought to be more afraid of Big Brother, but the truth is that my life is a little too boring for me to get all worked up about…
Punctuation in Texts
My children tell me I’m rude, but they’ll forgive me because I’m old. I’m rude, they say because I insist on punctuation in texts. I agree I’m rude, but I…
Book Review — Firefly
Firefly is a small book of poems by Ellen Austin-Li that I assume is autobiographical, though it may be entirely fictional. The fact that I cannot tell is a testament…
