• One Sentence Story – Sunny Days

    She wakes up to his smiles ever day, a deep grin he leans his whole body into, and is continually bewildered that she and her husband produced such a delightfully sunny little boy:…

  • Thrifty

    In a fit of thrift, I have whipped up two ice cube trays worth of frozen baby food.  Squash, carrots, bananas.  Ice cube trays are a convenient way to freeze it – then…

  • Schmeconomic Schmownturn

    Dear baby – Mommy and daddy are a little stressed out just at the mo. If this economic “crisis” bidness had happened 8 months from now, a year from now, it wouldn’t be…

  • The Comedy, the Tragedy

    Once I wrote an opera.   It was the mid 1990s, in California.  I was 16.  I was heavily involved in my high school theatre program – and the band – doubly talented,…