May 5, 2025 | Stories
The dog park Who knows what brings couples like Shelia and Jim Hasting stay together. Then the question, why do they stay together? I don’t get it and the answer is so what. Is that question at about the same level of complexity as why do you like bitter chocolate and...
May 3, 2025 | Stories
Confirmation I can’t ask my brother Ernst whether many of my memories of our childhood are correct. If he were alive I would ask him “Wasn’t our phone number at home when we were little kids WA (wadsworth) 6-9027? There are so many other things I want to ask him about...
Apr 29, 2025 | Stories
Whose Home I was shocked, didn’t know what to expect but how could I know what I would see, remember, walking back, no sneaking back in time, lost, but here I am. Just stood there, paralyzed? Yes, but I continue to stand in front of what I think was my...
Apr 27, 2025 | Stories
Eva Rudi and I were colleagues stuck at a small elite college in the middle of nowhere Ohio. We didn’t quite make it at a high-powered university. He taught physics and I was an associate prof in the chemistry department. Were we friends? I guess so but not...
Apr 6, 2025 | Stories
Whose panties are they? Mathilda, Oscar’s mom, asked him to go to the basement of their apartment building and put the washed clothes in the dryer. Oscar hated the basement. The roaches there were large and vicious and he saw them eyeing him always ready to pounce....
Apr 5, 2025 | Stories
Bernd Barth catches a train Everything matters including how you deal with fear The rainbow of scents from the flower stand are gone, replaced by the odor of stale beer. The café Geiger, gone. Thaler’s luggage shop is no more. The little shops in the central railroad...
