“Seven Brides for Dracula” is a cute little play good for middle school students. It required seven females, but we were short on girls that year, so Mrs. Lu suggested to the class that they could either borrow two girls from the younger grades or cast two boys dressed as women wearing wigs. One boy… Continue reading Pushing the Envelope
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The Zen of Laundry
I don’t know what it is, but I love doing laundry. I guess there’s something meditative in the way we learn to sort the clothes by color and texture, check the pockets, add the proper amount of detergent, set the temperature of the water, shake out the wrinkles and lint from the wet clothes, sort the… Continue reading The Zen of Laundry
An Outside Force
She loved him like a husband for fifteen years, but there was no sex involved. She was firmly married and although she would have the occasional sexual dream about him, all she longed for was to be comforted by him on the days when things got rough as they often do in middle school. He… Continue reading An Outside Force
Boxing Day
Every year I promises myself, “I won’t cry at Christmas.” But every year I do. I cry about the the story itself. I cry when I hear the music of the season, especially “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” when I think of all the soldiers on deployment. I cry for friends and family far and… Continue reading Boxing Day
Anomaly
It was not a term she was unfamiliar with – anomaly. She had heard it many times in a sociology class she had taken in college. “That doesn’t count. That group is an anomaly,” the professor said. It didn’t really seem fair to her to discount an entire group of people because they were “anomalies.”… Continue reading Anomaly