Free to Fly
I’m humbled for you allowing my little stories into your world. As Annie Erauax – awarded the 2022 Nobel prize in Literature said – “To write is to fight forgetting.”
May we all be part of that better tomorrow!
Thank you!

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions(Part 3) John Lennon reminded us in Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy): Life is what happens to you when you’re making other plans. This week ‘life’ happened with news of the death of Alexander Martinez – an adult student attending a college night course that I teach. Alexander was…
Are there any of us who doesn’t have truly great memories – despite the fog of time obscuring the past? It’s like when someone’s having a roaring good time on a Saturday night and paying hell for it the next morning with a hazy hangover. Later, when they reflect back, what do you think they’ll…
It seems clear that some people don’t understand the Wall Street protests that are going on now in New York City … and indeed, with similar protests in cities across America and around the world. They seem to share some of the same hallmarks: the rich getting rich and the poor getting poorer. Of course, to…
Each year you probably become inundated with Christmas songs. I understand completely. Yet, with the unavoidable on its way, I got reminiscing recently and it seemed like someone or something was opening up my heart– like opening up the front of my upright piano and plucking the strings inside. This was from a far away…
Eight years have passed, and I still wonder what the last thing he wanted to say to me? Maybe he was going to apologize for being so psychologically cruel to me (no physical scars, my father never hit me) after my Mom left. Although, perhaps not; for years after the divorce, he was hurting too. Was…
Some people don’t believe in angels. I do. This is a story of how one entered my life, left it … only to return again, years later. But, this is no Hollywood presentation with soft music and predictable outcomes. When I first met this woman, she was an austere person: strict and countenancing a matronly…