stories

 THE SURVIVALIST     When the Soviet Union broke up, I got a divorce.  There didn't seem to be any point in continuing the charade any longer and our marriage was over, had never really started at all.   I should explain--my husband was what the media called a survivalist...

    Ross parked the car and we sat looking at each other.  We were in the heart of the worst housing project in the city.  Once housing for a WW 2 military base, it was now the most dangerous part of the city, at least according to the TV and the politicians running for…

                                                              DEPRESSION: 3 IMPRESSIONS   1st impression   Giant shadows posture and...

Here's the deal: This is my back-stage area. It's not always pretty or "together" or even very organized, sometimes. Maybe it's kinda ugly sometimes. I don't look my best here, a lot of the time. I feel like I can take off the mask, my public face, here, and be as honest as I'll probabl...

  Road trips-Snowed in   So there I was, snowed in in a town in New Mexico, just me and my buddy Jack Daniels, watching a "Twilight Zone" marathon. It was New Year’s Eve, 1982. I was on leave from the Navy at Great Lakes, Illinois where I was attending Engineering school...

   (20 years ago) THE SURVIVALIST  When the Soviet Union broke up, I got a divorce.  There didn’t seem to be any point in continuing the charade any longer and our marriage was over, had never really started at all.  I should explain--my husband was what the media c...

  In 1983,  my ship, the USS Klakring, was commisioned in Bath, Maine, on August 20th.  I had been with the crew since the spring, either in Norfolk, Virginia or in Bath, where the ship was built and where we gathered to "man the ship".  As an engineer, I was one of ...

  *****   Road Trips The Wasps     I had driven for about 12 hours that day through the hot, empty lands of Minnesota and South Dakota. Although it was only early spring, the temperature had stood at over 100 degrees all day. After leaving the area of Minneapolis-St. Paul, the...

  Road trips-Snowed in   So there I was, snowed in in a town in New Mexico, just me and my buddy Jack Daniels, watching a "Twilight Zone" marathon. It was New Year’s Eve, 1982. I was on leave from the Navy at Great Lakes, Illinois where I was attending Engineering school...

Depression 2nd Impression (1981) ********** Of man, many things are said by those who are well read...   From the pit of noxious emotion, to the pinnacle of glorious ambition, man strides across a hostile world remaking all unto his image.   From the depths of his soul, he pours the dre...