The bitch is rich!

I got my first royalty check ever today: 895 whole dollars, US. I still owe money to the publishers of my other two books; the difference is...

Red and Black

As a kid, it seemed that everyone else had gotten the guidebook. The other kids knew what it meant, for example, when someone asked if you w...

Trust

I am sitting at the dining room table in the house of strangers who are vacationing in Oregon. I have never met them, but they left their ke...

Where's my degree?

I am tired of seeing doctors and doctors and getting estimates and giving my insurance card to be photocopied and also the list of medicine ...

The Looming Future

R said she was afraid that after she gave birth to her twins, she would be seized by post-partum depression. She was afraid she'd turn i...

I don't wanna think about it.

I'm not talking about cancer. I'm talking about rowing. I started rowing on Thursday with the cancer rowers . The boat, as noted pre...

The Things We Remember

[Student prison, no longer in service, U of Heidelberg] At the 30th high school reunion, I told S that I remembered that in elementary schoo...