Recess Reminiscence

Recess Reminiscence

Ri-i-i-ing!  It’s the school recess bell! The black-topped fare of jump rope awaits! It’s a passionate exercise for girls who are not allowed to climb the jungle gym to burn off energy from morning math and reading. It’s the day of the dress or skirt worn to ‘be a...
Friends in Need, Help! Indeed

Friends in Need, Help! Indeed

It’s a new year’s resolution common among women and men: to lose weight. We are  now in week 4 of the proposition. My husband has lost 8 – 10 pounds, while I have lost and regained the same two in a cycle, not on a cycle, as I should have been. To...

Surfer Dudes

The grubby doorway yawns wide and its frame is mildly akimbo. It’s entry to a sallow stone building that is blocks from prime oceanside real estate, a place where squandered dreams live on. I am a sucker for an underdog, eager to savor and save what I can: “Let’s see...
Tough Love

Tough Love

  Several years ago a sister whispered, “I didn’t get the empathy gene,” in a wistful tone of exposition. The stunning confession is tape-recorded in my memory, a specialty from my profession and a childhood spent in vigilance.It explained a lot...