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A big truck and a little gnome with cookies

A friend of mine related these incidents. Then she swore me to silence with regard to names, dates, and places. ..


Get a grip

I do terrible things to my secretaries. I snap at them “Stand up straight! You look like an old woman.” ..


A father. A mother. A hurricane. And a song.

Hurricanes do terrible things. And wonderful things. We know about the bad stuff. Floods. Electrical failure. Destruction. Homelessness. And, of ..


Tripping over Peacocks and Laughing at Mice. A Day at the Bronx Zoo.

I don’t care how far away the Bronx Zoo is from where you live. Distances are navigable; airplane tickets can ..


Deliver De-letter, De-sooner, De-better

Dear, Dear Post Office: My earliest memories of you are not of letters sent by Uncles and Aunts, but of pen ..


Angels on the Internet

There are all sorts of hypotheses about what happens to us after we die. Some believe that, like Clarence in ..


Reality reversal for a steamy summer day

On this hot summer afternoon, when I should be doing somersaults in a swimming pool, eating picnic potato salad, and ..


9/11 Memorial – A befitting salute

The 9/11 Memorial is sad. It is solemn. It is beautiful, perhaps in the way that dark clouds on a ..


Lester Atwell: A fine old gentleman

When I first heard the name Lester Atwell, I was sure I knew it from somewhere, and that he had ..


O. Henry. Oh, Hero.

I am a writer. That is what I am. That is what I do. If an examination were performed on my ..


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