Stories
Stories about facets of lives lived and, implicitly, components of mental functions.
Secrets
Leopold Café is always crowded. Their Danish and coffee are superb. The service is awful.Bill was at a table sipping his second cup of cappuccino and munching on a huge piece of coffee cake. Two weeks ago, he sat at this very same table. Back then, his misery was all...
Editing my memory
I left Global Financial Inc. early today. Couldn’t take it. At the moment I am sitting at Sam’s café waiting for Claire. Some jittery clients are screaming at me. I may be a financial analyst but not a magician. Today the ink was black and smelled like fresh tar on a...
Everything matters to Werner: Children explore the world around them
I visit a gym and have gotten to know many of my fellow old ‘gymnasts’. One of them is Werner who asked me to read this story he wrote and then corrected himself and said no, it’s a poem that he wrote. He handed me what he wrote and did so with lots of hesitation,...
Smell expert: Children explore the world around them
I never knew Charlie R when I was in elementary school. We sometimes played together in the neighborhood playground where I lived just outside of Columbus Ohio. When I was 12 we moved away and that is the last time I saw Charlie. Many years later I read a...
The old Bow-legged Antelope: A Noah Saga story
Why did Noah recruit an oldie to join the younger animals on the Ark? He told his recruiter, The Prince from Minsk “Get us one animal that can teach us about aging. I don’t want someone who can talk about aging but instead can show us what aging can look like. Also,...
The Noah Saga synopsis and posted stories
The Noah Saga is based on the biblical story of Noah’s Ark. In this transformation of that bible story, animals on the Ark are represented as people dressed in animal garb. The ‘people’ represent a range of human experiences. These are the ‘animals’ that are...
Second thoughts: A chapter in the Noah Saga.
A chapter in the Noah Saga. (A transformation of the biblical Noah story) Barth, 1971, Prague, said….. If you think what you just did was a mistake then just wait awhile and it will turn out that you were right The German Land Lizard saw that Noah couldn’t stop...
Bedtime stories
My next-door neighbor, Harry B, and I are not close friends, but we have a cozy relationship. Our wives don’t. We share a huge snow blower, some power tools and once in a while a drink at the neighborhood pub rather than in each other’s home. We are each forever...
A walk in the woods near Vlaminck’s house
Part 1 Colors, shapes, patterns, movement is what we see. We have to put all that visual experience together to make what we see meaningful. A retinal image is meaningless without our input from our knowledge, experience, and the context in which images appear....
Mr. Rosenthal: Children explore the world around them
These last months, Werner and I are spending much of our time reminiscing. Yesterday I asked, “Werner, do you remember Mr. Rosenthal? I can see him clearly, just as he appeared when he rang our doorbell. We must have been about 10.” We both knew why he appeared every...