Assignment: Write a flash novel in 100 words or less She licked and gnawed with a ravenous passion but also with a gentleness seldom found today. She softly nibbled, more with her lips than with her teeth. I’ve never known anyone with such skills; she is truly an accomplished master. Wow! When she sensed the…

Assignment: Write a flash novel in 100 words or less He sauntered into the bar like he owned it spotting a sexy blond whose ass spilled over her bar stool perfectly. It took three swigs from his beer before she spoke. He seduced her with his wit and charm. He woke with the blond asleep…

A guy walks into a bar … These are my favorite jokes. I started collecting them to tell to my preteen grandchildren during our summer vacations at the Jersey shore. I know they’re old but Xenya, Timmy and I enjoy them anyway. So this tuna fish sandwich walks into a bar and the bartender says,…

We were once the token Yanks at a party of English speaking people from around the world. The conversation naturally turned to our lack of a common language. Frustrated by my inability to teach those folks how to speak properly I prepared this little English to American dictionary. The English say:       They really mean: advert                                 commercial arse                                     …

A report Card Barack Obama said all of the right things during his almost two year campaign. I agreed with him 100% and thought it would be fun to keep score on how he and I agreed for the first 100 days of his presidency. Remember, this is my report card and I grade subjectively…

This weblog is my first attempt to publish my growing collection of short stories. I hadn’t considered a weblog until now because I thought the whole idea of self publishing to be one big ego trip for those with questionable talent. Anyway, I spend a couple of hours a day writing and rewriting short stories…

Introduction I spent five memorable years in the U.S. Marine Corps. Why five years, you ask. Because the Marines build men, some take longer than others. Here are a couple of stories from my days in the Corps. Semper Fi. The First Hour We pass though the gate at Marine Corps Recruit Depot in the…

Movies are the ultimate escapism. When you sit down to a movie you become an integral part of the story; you’re up close and personal with a time in history, long-gone important people or some other smuck like yourself playing their part in one of life’s many stories. I’m a fan of older movies and…

Is Cuba such a bad place? I spent my boyhood worrying about communists and the nuclear attack we were sure was coming. We faithfully fought this evil menace by crawling under our elementary school desks in one civil defense alert after another. Why? Because the then leader of the Soviet Union had threatened to “bury”…

We’ve all heard about the excitement of living on the edge. This is my first stab at it and I’m getting goose bumps as I type. Wow, are we living on the edge or what? Now that I’m here I don’t know what else to say, it must be that my heart is pounding so…