A Plate of Happiness

    I WAS ONLY THERE for lunch but when I saw her for the first time, I knew there was a higher purpose.  She was wearing what all the other waitresses were, a pair of black slacks grayed from too many washings with a white dress shirt and pair of black shoes. ...

    Don’t Use The Kleenex

    (They're for company)  MY DAD.  What a character.  He was full of these little gems of wisdom when I was growing up.  Hold a door open and you get … What are you trying to do, heat the outside? Or its summer counterpart, You trying...

    The Cat

    from an unpublished collection, Fireside Tales of Jamestown -------An homage to the king of horror, Edgar Allen Poe------- I HAD A CAT ONCE, when I was young.  It was black as a moonless night in the country with snow white paws.  Sometimes, in the...