ACT ONE SCENE 1 (AT RISE we see DAN, handsomely dashing, standing in the middle of the kitchen.  He is fidgeting with an electric screwdriver.  After a few moments, AUBURN, fetchingly beautiful, enters.  DAN sighs. DAN Are you sure we … Continue reading →

  I respect my latte. It warms me; my hands, my throat, my heart. Its foam lingers on my lip, telling all the world it is mine. It doesn’t mind a little biscotti now and then; neither do I. We’re … Continue reading →

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.                                                    Tom Stoppard, … Continue reading →

I drift.  One thing leads to another. I heard from a friend today.  We talk sporadically; it’s like we just spoke two hours ago to one another.  “Hey,” she says.  I’m right with her.  All I need is one word … Continue reading →

An admirer once wrote to Rudyard Kipling: “I see you get a dollar a word for your writing. I enclose a check for one dollar. Please send me a sample.” Kipling responded: “Thanks.” Beautiful, perfect brevity.  I shall remember this … Continue reading →

  Barring unforeseen circumstances I’ll undergo surgery next week on my right wrist.  My dominant hand will be unusable for six weeks.  Six miserable weeks!  Every movement, each purposeful act, will be done with a left hand that is recalcitrant, … Continue reading →

Wilson came home yesterday after four weeks in Big Boy doggie boot camp.  Oh, what a pittiful sight!  His hair had turned grey.  It was long and matted from ( he said) all those turrible, turrible hours digging out a … Continue reading →

  Look!  Have you ever seen anything like it?  Here it is, becoming razor clean, curdling and hurling its leaves across the living room rug.  And after I saved its doomed life ahead of that wicked wind storm last week, this is … Continue reading →

With only a few days to go before the dreaded wrist surgery that will surely leave me helpless and insane, here are some random items I thought you should know.  I hope you’ll make your own List ‘o Randomness and … Continue reading →

  This is what you shall do:  Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants … … Continue reading →