All poems and stories

  • The good old days, my two cents

    Tonight, my head is filled with images from my past. I see my young self, tanned so dark that other kids asked if I was Indian. I had thick, curly hair. I wore black-rimmed glasses with one arm taped on with masking tape. The tape was a light cream color. I used a marker and…

  • Self, a short short story

    I don’t like myself. I am unbearable, hard-headed, opinionated, and arrogant. Sometimes I am just a troublemaker. I know this not from self-discovery, but from something less subjective. Two months ago, I came home from a day spent with friends, watching a full solar eclipse. The eclipse was spectacular! Seeing the sun disappear, hearing the…

  • Joehad (enough), a short short story

    By all accounts Joe is ‘a good man’. He was born the only child to Joe and Joanne Wish. His parents loved each other and raised him well. Unfortunately they also gave him their unremarkable genes, and the last name Wish. His mother was short. His father was wide. Joe was short and wide. ***…

  • Hans and Sabine, living, loving and learning

  • Ireland, a poem

    Visiting Ireland for a two week road trip I became ill. I saw a doctor at a clinic and she sent me to the hospital. They removed my ruptured appendix Tuesday! This could have turned out much worse! I am so thankful that I saw a doctor. I left my heart in Ireland last year,today…