Category Archives: Stories

It all started about a month ago when I was chewing a piece of gum. I bit down and felt a sharp pain in my back molars. After an hour or so, the pain died down, but ever since then, … Continue reading →

We left the botanical gardens and went searching for a gas station. We drove over half of San Antonio before we finally stumbled upon one a mile from the airport ($2.39/gallon). We arrived in plenty of time for me to … Continue reading →

It all started last year when I realized there wasn’t a thing I could do about turning 50. I’d always thought of 50 as being old, but I wasn’t ready to be old yet. I decided that the solution to … Continue reading →

emer.gen.cy  n — an unforeseen combination of circumstances or the resulting state that calls for IMMEDIATE ACTION. – 11:03 am — I receive a phone call at work from the nurse at my daughter’s school. My daughter is in her … Continue reading →

My car is 15 years old. It still has switches and cranks. There are no buttons on the dashboard except on the CD player, and most of those don’t work. When I was in Portland recently, my rent-a-car was a … Continue reading →