Stories

(for Roz who as a small child lived hidden in an attic in Nazi occupied Prague) Everything matters  ......The sound of a siren....Getting louder .... Moving away..   Shouting from the street Far away.....Getting closer....Whispers.....Outside the door......A child is...

Adults and children can be curious observers and investigators. We can all be investigators, engaged observers. We can nurture our curiosity, ask questions, try to answer them. We live in an amazing, exciting, stimulating world. The neurologist, Oliver Sacks, is a...

The dining room of the Ark was strangely quiet. Usually, there is bedlam. For once, no food fights. Tonight, there was little laughter. A few of the animals did get up and danced to recorded music from Medina’s song cycle. Like every Wednesday night, it was …yes, you...

Noah wanted to make sure that Medina's knowledge was in good hands, that is, minds. He asked himself, ‘Could he count on math knowledge being stored properly in the noggins of the Ark’s animals?’ Noah didn’t quite trust them when they said things like “Sure, I know...

The animals remained in the dining room, munching on tonight's dessert, rhubarb pie. The Star Gazer, sitting near the German Land Lizard, commented on the pie. "I guess the chef does not believe in using sugar. This pie is the poster child for what it means to swallow...

Part 1 Larry Simmons I’ve always thought fiction is just truth wearing a costume. Change a few names, move the setting around, and what you’re left with is still something real — sometimes more real than the facts would suggest. I’m Sam Spiegel, and this is a true...

may need some additional editing Who knows why couples like Sheila and Jim Hastings stay together. Then the question is, 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...

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 what I, or...

I was shocked, didn’t know what to expect but how could I know what I would see, remember, walking back, not 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 childhood home. No. I...

         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...