‘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…
Have you ever had one of those life flashing before your eyes moments? No? Well, I have and I can…
I was born on the ice. I’m not lying. My mother, a former ice skater, went on the rink the…
She had ran unopposed for two years as student president. Two whole years. She got soda machines back in the…
Little Red Riding Hood didn’t know the way to grandma’s house. Her mother told her to cross a field and…
‘Trimming the tree’ my Grandmother called it. Do people use that expression any more? Seems like a long time since…