Short Stories From 10 Years Ago – April 15, 2004

Short Stories From 10 Years Ago – April 15, 2004

 The Hermit

Short Stories From 10 Years Ago – April 15, 2004 – In the Tarot deck, The Hermit is one of twenty-two Major Arcana cards, whose illustrations represent different stages or rites of passage in a person’s life journey. I have drawn The Hermit a number of times in recent weeks and perhaps this is a message to which I should be paying attention.

Read More»

Short Stories From 10 Years Ago – April 14, 2004

Short Stories From 10 Years Ago – April 14, 2004

A Great Salad

Short Stories From 10 Years Ago – April 14, 2004 – I finished work today about 6:30 P.M. and headed home. On the way I got a sudden, very intense craving for a Big Harv, fries and a vanilla shake. This hunger for beef had nothing to do with me being heavy with child and having (a little dill pickle craving) because of course I’m not. That would be a scientific impossibility.

Read More»

Short Stories From 10 Years Ago – April 13, 2004

Short Stories From 10 Years Ago – April 13, 2004

A Lack Of Sleep

Short Stories From 10 Years Ago – April 13, 2004 – I know why women who are ‘menopausal’ are dangerous – it’s because we’re exhausted and our brains are so befuddled with a lack of decent, quality sleep that our neurons don’t know whether they’ve fired, are re-loading or are out of ammunition.

Read More»

Short Stories From 10 Years Ago – April 12, 2004

 Short Stories From 10 Years  Ago – April 12, 2004

Tarot Cards

Short Stories From 10 Years  Ago – April 12, 2004 – During the summer of 1972 I went to see a psychic with a friend of mine. I had lost my brother Mike in a car crash the previous December and I was still reeling emotionally from that tragedy.

Read More»

Short Stories From 10 Years Ago – April 11, 2004

Short Stories From 10 Years Ago – April 11, 2004

More Than Just A Pedicure

Short Stories From 10 Years Ago – April 11, 2004 – If you’re ever looking for an inexpensive, relaxing way to treat yourself, call your local spa or nail salon and book a pedicure. I didn’t have my first professional pedicure until I was in my forties. I’d always done a great job of painting my toenails myself.

Read More»

Short Stories From 10 Years Ago – April 10, 2004

Short Stories From 10 Years Ago – April 10, 2004

 

The Frow Up Dish

 

Short Stories From 10 Years Ago – April 10, 2004 – When my brothers and I were kiddies we naturally succumbed to all the typical childhood illnesses. We had chicken pox, measles and mumps (I didn’t catch the mumps – I stubbornly told my mother that I would not have them and I didn’t).

Read More»

Short Stories From 10 Years Ago – April 9, 2004

Short Stories From 10 Years Ago – April 9, 2004 

A Warm Spring Day

Short Stories From 10 Years Ago – April 9, 2004 – At last a day without a coat – sunny and forty-eight degrees. Cold by summer’s standards but warm for spring. It’s Good Friday and I’m working today so I was up early to look after The Alphabet Boys and then have morning coffee before I jumped into the shower.

Read More»