Meri & I finished watching an episode of 60’s gothic supernatural soap opera, “Dark Shadows”, repeating emphatically Barnabas’ dialogue from that episode. “You mustn’t…
Different Worlds
I gave Mom plenty of notice to be prepared. Surely she would get this right? Susie paraded Amber, her 43 pound Rottweiler, up the…
Winding Down Warden Drive
Mom wound her way down the long hill on Conrad Street to the traffic light at Midvale Avenue in front of the Free Library…
Looks Like We Made It
I peered up at the hazy August sky as Burt Reynolds moustache came into view. The Tacony-Palmyra Drive-In movie theatre was playing “Smokey &…
Friendly Angel
Mom scrubbed the breakfast dishes hurriedly as they had already been in the sink for three hours. Mrs Koia yelled across the 20 feet…
Corney Park
The Cutlass Supreme lurched to a stop as the five of us leapt from the car singing the Ideal Fashions theme of Hammonton, NJ.…
“Mr. Blue Sky”
The line to fill up your tank stretched about a half mile down Route 73 as my brother waved a 72 Chevy Impala up…
“Waiting For A Star To Fall”
Muffin hurriedly grabbed her satchel of spells and disembarked from the tour bus, her piercing and vaguely unsettling eyes darting about the theatre and…
“Shambala”
I clutched my five nickels in my 7 year old hand as I negotiated Penrose Avenue. It had become practically a highway, which fed…
“Cat’s In The Cradle”
The jet touched down at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport exactly on time, and already I felt an air of calm come over me. Mom had nudged…