Yes, it’s hell week. Hundreds of pages of cases and projects and term papers piled high. Reading and grading is a slow, laborious process.  Made even more difficult by that odd ball who thinks they are smarter than me. They plagiarize liberally and … [Read more...]

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he … [Read more...]

His teenage son was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. He spent the first two weeks in shock. He then quit his job and stayed home to care for his son — cooking, reading, caring, and taking him for his treatments.  In this “zone” of care … [Read more...]

Life is no brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold for a moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.George Bernard Shaw … [Read more...]