Category: Non-Fiction

For my birthday some years ago, a dear girlfriend organized a ladies luncheon for me. It was touching, especially since I had not had a luncheon in my honor for more than twenty years. I had given her the name of ten of the most...

It was just before dessert on Christmas eve, sitting with a few neighbor guests in our living room and our friend, Sophie, who suddenly spoke up. We had just finished our crab cake supper and Sophie, as she stirred her coffee...

I wait in the small, light blue examination room, nervously tapping my index finger on the chair’s black vinyl armrest. Colorful posters displaying different parts of the brain decorate the walls. My favorite is a caricature of...

Once on a shopping trip with my wife while we were feeling the exhilaration of knowing that money could be spent, unnecessary things could be purchased, life could be decorated, we bought a large colorfully painted ceramic frog....

In my second year of college – What? Yes, we had electricity but no internet or cell phones. Mid-1980s. May I continue? In my second year of college, there was a girl with Goldilocks wavy hair that I admired from afar. This was...

In 1991 I was sharing a five-thousand-square-foot loft with a friend of mine in downtown L.A. The building was located in an industrial area on the outskirts of town. Most of the buildings in the neighborhood consisted of old...

A young mom sat with a child on her lap. The sharpness of her image cut across the sandstorm of happy bodies at play on the summertime beach. It was her silence that spoke louder to me than the ruckus of keyed up beachgoers. She...

One night in the park a yearling doe was trotting sideways through early snow over still green grass dancing and pausing, dancing and pausing like a baby Paso Fino testing new ground She held her head upright as she played...

The definition of hell was being a woman in the 1700’s. I never thought about this until I read The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon. This author pulls no punches regarding the severity of how women were disrespected, attacked and...