Jump Rope
Rather than critique her third re-write, I asked to take a stab at it. Jump Rope “Cinderella dressed in yella …
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QUIET!
Of today what shall I say ‘thout no letters to write nor bills to pay Only to do as I …
Waking Betty Jane
It would be a typical March Day on the Ohio River. Sustained winds strafe the water at 25 miles per …
Crash and Burn: a pastiche
Too far into the first minute to do anything about it, the competitor realizes that his train has left the …
Chicago and back: 18 hours.
Twenty-something year old men wearing little more than shorts and a tee hunch their shoulders, huddle their arms across their …
It’s a Woman’s World
The first time it happened was 1982, Via Marimanni, Coverciano, Italy. I needed some bistecca (sirloin) for a dinner party so I …
“Hello, Gertie? Gimme Rewrite!”
…and then there is the occasion when I write and write and write. I deliberate for hours over whether the …
It’s nice to be missed.
A subscriber e-mails, ” ‘Sup?” She misses my sometimes-weekly postings. The truth of the matter? Nothing. Contrary to what my …
Tell Oprah
When Oprah described the interview as “shocking”, “riveting” possible topics clicked through my mind: Homosexual affair with Ben Affleck, Betrothed …
See Dick’s Gun. Run, Jane, Run!
It was a simpler age. War ravaged Viet Nam. Women burned their bras. Snipers opened fire on college campuses. Kennedy …
