Cheesy Pennies

It was a series of fortunate events: 1.  I had assigned myself dessert duty for the feast .* 2.  I said I would bring cheesecake, pecan pie...

This usually means my kids getting outrageously excited about having four days in a row off from school.   In my case, it was me getting a m...

I'm expecting a phone call in about 20 minutes.  It will be the ambulance guys, calling to let me know that my mom is on her way to a b...

My mom is in the hospital.   She got there by ambulance, thanks to the incredibly kind and efficient paramedics at the Burbank Fire Departm...

When our family first moved to San Diego, my sister was about 9 and I was 11.  We'd been uprooted from our home in DC, driven miles acr...

There's a cliche about how story ideas are pitched in Hollywood:  An eager young writing team goes into a meeting, says, "It's ...