PICKING OUT A NAME
This is worse than naming a baby! Everyone has an opinion — negative — but so far no one has …
Category Archives: creative nonfiction
The Time-Suck Diet
Wait! Don’t let the word diet frighten you off. This isn’t about that kind of diet. I’ve already been down …
Listen Here, Brain…
How do you tell your brain to shut up and go to sleep? Geez, I wish I knew. Mine just …
Tattoos — An Artful Gift To Posterity?
Never mind the gallery full of beautiful paintings… I’m wondering if I have missed my chance to leave the ultimate …
One Ringy Dingy…
The conversation went something like this: AG: Hello? MM: oh, hi. Sorry I didn’t get to the phone quickly enough…it …
Seventeen Chickens
Aah, what can be nicer than waking (before dawn) to the sound of an adolescent rooster yodelling…? Yes, I once …
A Word About…Dog Bonding
I know what some of you are thinking…”So what’s the big deal? You see a dog, you love it, it …
Fifty Grades of Thin
I’m not talking about diets here. The subject is hair. It seems the latest trend amongst the fashionista (plus anyone …
The Grandpuppy Has Arrived At Last. And Taken Charge
Meet Mini — a twelve-week-old Newfoundland puppy. At the time of her induction into our Tribe, she was twelve weeks …
A Dog? Really?
Yes, folks, there will soon be a puppy in my life. I am not really a dog person. Dogs smell, …
The Meandering Matriarch 