Free Ways

Free Ways

Six months ago, if you’d told me that I’d miss our masked up existence and protracted homestay, I would have laughed aloud. “Ridiculous!” I’d have shouted. Today, however, I admit the suggestion’s truth. While almost everything about the pandemic-enforced pause was...

“Are you _____?” Mistaken identities rate!

The curious interest, the thinly-veiled stare, the hesitation, the pointing, the whispering – and then the ask, rather the tell: “You’re ____, aren’t you.” A shy, yet gushing smile. Marietta Harley, for one. In her case, I think it was...
New Year’s Resolutions: Boon or Bust

New Year’s Resolutions: Boon or Bust

All of us have bad habits, some badder than others. Such as the people who break Commandments, like ‘Thou shalt not murder, steal, and/or covet,” which are remarkably, regrettably bad. According to a cutely credible pop culture book, ‘Everything Bad...