I called in sick yesterday for the 12-hour city shift I was supposed to work today. I told them if I was forty, I might consider coming in, but I am much older (67) (and wiser), so I said I needed to rest. They told me I sounded horrible and to rest and be well….
Many years ago when I was a young writer I told another writer I would give anything to have written Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. He scolded me, and said, why would you want to have another person’s story be your mark on the world? Tell your own stories. Write about who you are…
When the dispatch is for a welfare check, person hasn’t been seen in two days, mail piling up in the box, newspapers on the front steps, strange smell, etc., my interest is piqued. What will we find when we get there? Sometimes it is just an empty house or apartment, and the neighbor says yes,…