It is still a mystery to me why I was assigned to the wrestling dorm my freshman year at college. My only experience with wrestling was with my ex-girlfriend's Siamese cat who would ambush me from above and land on my head. The cat was the best part of the relationship. I still … [Read more...]

Dilly Dan was a pickle man, selling his gherkins on the corner of 1st Avenue and 12th Street. His cart was in the shape of a dill and he wore a uniform of all green. Dan lived for pickles, eating them at every meal and dreaming of them at night. All was green and briny in Dan's … [Read more...]

The neurologist told me my brain was okay but had age-related atrophy. The news about my middle-aged shrunken brain blared at me like a trailer headline from a sci-fi B movie. Suddenly I was "The woman in the Land of the Shrunken Middle-Aged Brains." There are many people from … [Read more...]

What I'm about to relate is all true but very hard to believe. My brother Steve was shocked when I reminded him of a story plot our father had imagined back in the eighties, and like me, Steve came to realize that a very big part of that plot happened in real life, to the very … [Read more...]