To see all or nothing at all is just the way mommy is, sweetheart! So when mommy sees you do bad naughty things, and hears you talk back, all of a sudden mommy sees a terribly bad brat .If I've…

During a writers' retreat at the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Muir Beach, I had a series of seizures, a couple of them on the beach itself. Everyone who has seizures has their unique types. I have no awareness…

I guess that one reason why people love ghost stories is that if there are ghosts, our loved ones are not lost. Something, even something evanescent, lingers, we don’t really have to say good-bye, ever. Plus, if the ghost lingers…

[Using my Creative Caffeine time to work on an essay...sometimes I do write to the prompts!] Who thinks of the future when they fall in love. I didn't when I met my husband. I didn't when I adopted my dog.…

So go the lyrics to the delightful bouncy tune in Rodgers and Hammerstein's OKLAHOMA, the show that changed the face of the modern American musical comedy. It's the adorable plea coming from the mouth of cowboy Will Parker , who…

No matter how hard we try, we cannot make our bodies last past their due dates. Nope. That’s one ball that starts rolling and that stops its journey definitely and definitively! WE cannot stop it. We wear out. So no…

The street I lived on when I was a young child in Los Angeles was perpendicular to two broad avenues (Griffith and Hollywood) which served as thruways to Hollywood r to the West and Los Feliz to the East. None…

I can't do what I want with my body which is to offer my body to yours, to wrap my warm belly around you. You get the picture. Remember, back in early June, you told me plain as day that…

Dear Stephanie, You thought you could cast a net wide and gather us all in but the net, heavy with obligation, sank and took us with it. A mother can only do so much. You should have stuck to your…

The center of myself is my core that keeps me together. As long as I remember to pull my belly into my backbone from time to time as I go about my everyday life, my core develops. On weekends, by…

In the aftermath of a great slaughter there always seems to be a great love among the survivors affected. Like after great sex, all the passions are spent, sheets a mess, weird fluids here and there, we are ready to…