She was what you’d call a femme fatale. I mean, her sex appeal was lethal. She wore sheathe dresses and had a figure you’d die for. I was blown away when I saw her. You know the type—tumbling shiny hair,…

When the gifted and delightful actress Kristen Bell was an undergraduate theater student at New York University, I was one of her fortunate acting teachers. I also had the privilege of casting her as the "Frank Mills" girl in a…

“Here is a brighter garden,” Eve said to Adam. She gestured to the vast hills, rolling into the horizon. Adam was moody, feeling she’d been responsible for their predicament. “Don’t make it a predicament,” she urged. “It’s not such a…

There is no perfume that even comes close to being as beautiful as the fragrance of the earth's soil and lush greenery as they all get washed with clear, clean rain....the kind of rain that enfolds everything in its generous…

It’s a line from a song from long ago, maybe the 1940’s. The earth was made for lovers. . . As time goes by. Time has gone by in my life, and I have had an embarrassingly number of lovers.…

I am a wildfire waiting to spread My skin is steaming, my brain frying Vision is bordered with flames of red, waiting for the day I drop dead The tantrum in my heart is too much to take If I…

I couldn't do anything. It wasn't anger; it was despair. I'd flown from San Francisco to Honolulu not knowing whether I'd find my son alive, being kept alive on machines, or -- that alternative was too horrid to think about.…

I go back to the memory of sitting in the hot shower, cuddled into my own arms wrapped around me, as i sit under the bruising heat of the water pelting down on my. My saltwater tears mix with the…

The toilet was clogged again this morning. I'm going to have to buy more moth traps for the kitchen. There are too many to keep up. I have to go to work. Someone just breathed on me in the line…