In eighth grade, I wore tons of make-up to Catholic school. I was a rebel. Trying to hide my outbreaks,…
When I was a small child my grandparents would take me blackberry picking. It was usually late August when the…
According to a book I read, the Phoenicians, Egyptians, Hindus, and Japanese believed the Earth hatched from a mundane egg.…
It was only 2:00 in the morning. Finding that she could not go back to sleep, she slowly got out…
I always admired her when I was growing up. No, that’s not quite true. I envied her. I wanted to…
‘Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.’ That was my mother’s mantra. It’s what…
Dad was a big guy, mean looking. Dad was a mean guy. I didn’t know him well. It’s hard to…
Mark only saw it by itself at night, when she would remove it and lean it against the wall before…
One night Lucy, the Tooth Fairy, and Mary, the Tinkle Fairy, got into a fight as fairies tend to do.…
Mark was eight; playing with boys he met while visiting his aunt. They took off down the slumbering summer streets…