Category Archives: HUMOR

FIFTEEN YEARS A SLAVE

It’s 5:10 a.m. The race is on. Who will be the first to announce the dawn of a new day? Mother Nature slashing a blaze of dazzling light across the horizon just before she catapults that blinding orb into the sky? No. She’s not scheduled to wake up for … Continue reading →

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TAG, YOU’RE IT!

If you’ve ever played RED ROVER, SIMON SAYS, or RED LIGHT, GREEN LIGHT, then you are not a stranger to TAG – a fast and furious game where one kid in a group is deemed IT and runs around the yard trying to touch someone … Continue reading →

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HEIGH HO – It’s Off To Class I go!

A return to my alma mater, State University of New York Stony Brook, for any reason was the last thing I ever expected to do until an acquaintance, picture book author Julie Gribble, told me about a Children’s Book Writers Conference to … Continue reading →

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SO, WHAT DO YOU DO? A Mother’s Day Tribute

Whether I’m chatting on a plane, in line at the grocery store, or sipping cocktails at the hippest place in town, yeah right, ninety-nine point nine percent of the time I am asked, “So –  what do you do?” It used to be a … Continue reading →

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HECK HATH NO FURY LIKE MS. MUFFET SCORNED

I invite you to read my submission for Susanna Leonard Hill’s  March Madness Writing Contest The Challenge: Write a children’s story, in poetry or prose, maximum 400 words, that is a fractured fairy tale. Feel free to add a theme of spring, or mix … Continue reading →

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TAKING A BLOG-A-CATION

Uh, I mean a vacation from blogging. Not for long. Only until the ironing’s done. Before I go though, I have a question for you: Have you noticed all the new blog-o-cabulary being used out there in Blogland lately? Personally, … Continue reading →

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OBJECT OF DESIRE

The night our relationship began was like any other August evening in the San Francisco Bay area. Foghorns droned. Seals arp-arped. A chill fog rolled over, under, and around the Golden Gate Bridge, spreading its misty fingers into the nooks … Continue reading →

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BREAKING SILENCE – A Pet Peeve Comes to Light

“Just let it out Margo!” my daughter urged. She started calling me Margo at a young age, whenever yelling “Mom! Mom! Mom!” didn’t get my attention. Clearly, she thought I had been keeping silent too long. An hour of heavy … Continue reading →

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IN A NEW YAWK MINUTE

Waking up to the 75th stunning, clear-blue, cloudless, 60 degree morning in a row last Saturday, Mr. Man and I shared a monumental moment of inspiration… That’s when great minds that have lived together for over three decades whoa! in separate … Continue reading →

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BA DUM TSS!

There are some things that I am not willing to share, like the road when there’s no guard rail to keep me from ending up at the bottom of a three thousand foot gorge, a bowl of Häagen-Daz cookies and cream, and … Continue reading →

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