You taught me to move fast, duck and dodge, fist to face, shoulders squared. We spent two summers play fighting and smoking. I’d curl like…
I was searching for a leprechaun and found one. It was a she who didn’t play by the usual rules, freely revealing the location of…
I had offered the house to a community theatre group for a rehearsal. I watched them rehearse one long scene and then, though it had…
Sherman’s first name was Tecumseh, really, after the Shawnee chief, but a priest tacked on William, after the Saint of Vercelli, on account of him…
The first use of fire is generally associated with Homo erectus, who are thought to have begun using fires approximately 1.5 million years ago. I…
We’re in bed again and you’re peeling a kiwi with your fingers. Get a knife, I say. It’s only a suggestion. I’m always telling you…
Someone places a floor at my feet, but because I don’t know what floor is, I call it door and fall through it. In the…
Recommendations for the care and feeding of this organ arrive on the hour on alternate Sundays and Thursdays in months beginning with J. There are…
My grandmother turned up alone and broke in New York because of two dead Prussians. Their names were Werner and Petra Rathskeller and they just…
Another method by which clouds form is through the lifting of air by an advancing storm system or, more often, by the slope of a…