Monthly Archives: September 2022

Entry for round 9 Florida Weekly picture of clouds. Reason Prevails To the untrained eyes of uneducated earth dwellers, it simply looked like the gathering of storm clouds, and they would be partially correct. There was a storm brewing, but … Continue reading →

Everyone needs a Peter Pan in their life. Just as he opened up a new world to Wendy, in her own magical way, my aunt showed me a completely different way to live. When I was about 10-years-old, I started … Continue reading →

To the Thief Who Stole My Car: You should be ashamed of yourself. You stole my car from the Price Rite parking lot last Thursday. You probably don’t care that my ice cream melted in the cart while I waited … Continue reading →

Four in the morning. The young woman’s cellphone on the bedside table shuddered awake.  Stealthily.  Ethereal light suffused the darkness, so faintly that Melanie did not waken.  Lifted by an unseen hand, the phone silently captured her unsuspecting picture. Back … Continue reading →

A Teacher   by Diane Hanley  9/21/2022 It was September of 1961, my sophomore year in high school.  For other schools around our country, desegregation was being enforced, but not at our school.  We were already integrated and always had … Continue reading →

Pack the bags, gas up the car, the hobbits charged the iPad Though the journey’s been traveled often, “Do you know the way” mom asked the dad “Of course, I do” was the terse replay, “It’s only four hundred miles” … Continue reading →

Call me a skeptic but any town named “Bliss” has got to be a dump. It’s like Iceland is really a cool place to visit, but Greenland is a nightmare of white desolation. It will be worth the three hour … Continue reading →

In January 1948, twelve weeks before my fifth birthday, I entered kindergarten, four months after my classmates had started.  The following September, I moved with them into grade 1, the youngest of my comrades, all of whom were born in … Continue reading →

If a blind date had eyes, it might see stuff that could not, or should not, be seen. Stuff that gets crammed into a life lived to its fullest. Stuff that seeps into your soul through lips, ears, nose, and … Continue reading →

Delilah felt like she was living the “B-side” of life. Just like old 45 records, the A side was popular and the B-side was… not. Everything about her life was average. She had a regular uneventful job that paid the … Continue reading →

The little boy is eight-years-old, and loves to visit his grandparents at their family cottage next door to mine.  For him, every day is an adventure, a surprise, a delight, as he wanders the woods, swims in the lake, and … Continue reading →

The traffic flowed along steadily.. There was the usual mix of passenger cars, trailers, construction trucks and even a few convertibles. We were in the red one, my father’s choice.  I sat in the right rear seat so I could … Continue reading →

I’ve always wondered about U.F.O’s. By attending a Pampered Chef party or roaming through a kitchen utensil store, you can open the door to a new world of objects that make your life easier. Walking down the aisle, a myriad … Continue reading →

Unmet Failed Outcomes VS  Unifying Favorable Observations Did you know that there is a frustrating silent relationship killer?  You might think  it is money or sex or selfishness;  maybe criticism, contempt, negativity or neglect.  Yes, all theses ARE causes of … Continue reading →

The white two-story Craftsman style house was built for the Vincent’s to share into their retirement years. The addition of a private bungalow was constructed in 1968 for their sixteen-year-old son, Robert Gordon (Gordo).  The home had been a focal point … Continue reading →

General Styx floated over Goda- her red eyes gleaming. Actually they were not eyes, they were truth sensors scanning  Goda, again. Goda was once the most promising recruit for the Intergalactic Flight School but he had already been sent to … Continue reading →

At a community cocktail-party recently, I was doing what I always do at these affairs—wandering casually from group to group, wine glass in hand, smiling and nodding, overhearing and eavesdropping, trying not to engage directly—biding my time until it was … Continue reading →

Sandy credited her superb organization skills for the planning of her wedding to her longtime boyfriend, Dan. With her wedding binder in hand, she had everything from the flowers and banquet hall labeled, tabbed and categorized to tackle any question … Continue reading →

C-Rations were canned food developed during WWII. Since they didn’t have a shelf life, the REMF’s (Rear Echelon Motherfuckers) at Disneyland East (The Pentagon) decided to use the last war’s leftovers to feed this war. The C-Rations cases were packaged … Continue reading →

Come on. Admit it. You’ve stolen something, probably after a few beers or on a dare. Or both. You justified it as a souvenir. It sits in the back of a closet or at the bottom of a drawer wrapped … Continue reading →