(10/1/11)  To Janessa Alysse, my beautiful niece: Your first birthday was Saturday! I can’t believe it. The year FLEW by like it was in a hurry or something. I can SO CLEARLY envision... Read more >>

My mother just relayed this story to me about my 5 year old niece. Her mother, my sister-in-law, was at dinner with her little girls and a family friend in a restaurant and her oldest was sitting... Read more >>

(from a series of short stories titled "Farting with Dignity") We all have that one set of friends, you know the outdoorsy type. They spend their vacations scuba diving or bungee jumping... Read more >>

Within an hour of my leaving the police station my twin sister went on a twenty-four hour reign of terror  sending voice, emails and text messages threatening to hunt me down and take my life.... Read more >>

It’s been a very long year since a violent tragedy took my twin sister and her daughter from our family. When I tell people I lost my identical twin sister and niece, they immediately... Read more >>

My little Brother died suddenly September30th, 2010. Clint was thirty-eight years old, divorced for a year ,and falling in love with someone new. He was the happiest I’ve ever seen him ... Well... Read more >>