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  • A Cat at the Museum

    “I know what “Azure” means, why wouldn’t I know what happiness and tranquility mean? Just because you’re my Papa doesn’t mean you’re smart or anything.” Read more

  • The Race

    This isn’t an excerpt, it’s a warning. A reader told me this was depressing. Read more

  • A Ghostie, but true, Christmas Tale

    “You better have the coffee ready before you get me out of bed.” Read more

  • My Mincemeat Pie

    The finest pie I’ve ever made screams Christmas. Read more

  • Bombed Out

    He loved nothing more than a roomful of people drinking and smoking and giving him his undivided devotion and attention. Read more

  • Snow Before Dawn

    At least there would be no school. Read more

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  • Hope

    Moonlight Shadow, by Gabriele Corno I meant to get the chairs under the deck before winter came, I really did. I enjoy watching the ducks and geese on the pond so much that I just didn’t want to move the chair. My chair. I moved all the other ones under the deck, that should count…

  • The Impossibility of Ice Plumbing

    “What do you mean something’s wrong with the kitchen sink, I just spent 4500 dollars getting it fixe?”

  • Why Not?

    Air trapped in the spaces in the snowflakes is a good sound insulator.

  • Big Deals of London

    “Marianne, fun stuff comes with a certain age.” Sarcasm dripped. “ Pain comes out of nowhere, it leaves one disgusted and usually debilitated in some sense of the word.”  Her thumb was out of commission for a weekend once. She couldn’t use her left hand, gratefully, She was right handed, but it made typing a…

  • Gypsy Wagon

    Show Biz “Oh, come on. You can be Festus and you can be Ms. Kitty,” “But, I want to be Matthew. He’s the sheriff,” he was being petulant, we all knew because his lower lip was sticking out. He was a decent actor.  “You can’t be Matthew. You get all the women in the cat…