“Rick! Careful! Those pots are hot! The last thing we need is for you to get scalded!” Such is how Mom would typically greet me when I “bounded,” as she claimed, into the kitchen. Perhaps I was walking rather quickly, […]
growing up
Saturday Mornings
On Saturday mornings, my brother and I would get up very early—unreasonably early, you might say. We would then steal downstairs, ever so stealthily, so as not to wake up Mom or Dad. Mostly it was Dad we did not […]
Brownie
When my parents brought home the family’s new RCA Victor black-and-white television set, they made it clear that it was not to be the center of attention, and as such, it would not be in the living room. That room was for reading the Sunday paper or a good book, entertaining company, and watching the flames flicker in the large brick fireplace.
A Dish Best Served Cold
There was a period of time, just before I became a teen, that whenever I was in the den…
Life at 12 College Road – A Short Video
Life at 12 College Road is a collection of thirty-three “real life” short stories that, when taken as a whole, paint a mosaic of a time and place both familiar and distant.
The world was once different – The Mist
I was again honored to have Boomercafe.com publish one of the stories from Life at 12 College Road, called ‘The Mist.’