America the Ugly, I Still Belong to You
One Big Unhappy Family “My neighbor with the anti-Trump bumper sticker doesn’t talk to me anymore,” my Dad said when I was visiting my parents in New Jersey this week. “The same thought had crossed ....
Category: Trueish Stories
Aurora Fredericalis
We are sitting around after dinner, phone rings, its Vera and Bob. "Where was that place we went to see the comet out in the countryside? We are trying to see the aurora." "Wait, are ....
View from Sandusky Bay, Ohio, North America, Planet Earth
The tulips glowed in their bedWith friendly bulbs of yellow and red.The children played a game of tagUntil my 4-year-old began to nag:“I’m too hot, Mom, there’s too much sun,I want to go inside, this ....
A Visit to Arkansas
Why Arkansas? “To me, Passion Plays always seemed menacing. They make me picture peasants coming out of a Passion Play on Easter and chasing Jews down the street in a pogrom. But now that I ....
May 2022 Abortion Rights Rally
I saw a few advertisements for the 14 May day of action in support of abortion rights. In the wake of the leaked Supreme Court decision striking down Roe v. Wade, I thought the rallies ....
Nerds in Bed
Usually Girl dives right into the ocean of sleep and it is Boy whose mind wanders in the dark from island to island. One time near the beginning, Girl was the one who couldn’t sleep. ....
My Latest Display Background
Latest picture I'm using for a screen background. This started as a blurry photo I took through a moving car's window as we were driven around the Dalmatian Coast a few years ago. It shows ....
His Brother the Comedian
“I love the Puerto Rican people. I go to Puerto Rico every year just to visit my hubcaps.” -Jackie Mason, The World According to Me (1988), 16:30 Here’s the first thing I should have said ....
Rioting as Politics by Other Means
In quick succession I read two different accounts of the attack on the capitol: US Representative Pramila Jayapal (R - WA) and others trapped in the House chambers, and Donald Trump calling Senators to lobby ....
In Quarantine Together
[Conversation is as accurate as memory allows, which is probably not too accurate.] [The Boy and Girl are together in the living room on a Friday night. The Girl is lying on the couch, dozing, ....