Stories of Suspense with a Sense of Humor
I decided I wanted to be a writer my second year of college. I was in the engineering school and engineering is not usually a path to literature, but, I entered the Hopwood Awards, which is a literary prize at the University of Michigan. Arthur Miller is one of the more famous recipients of that … Read more
Did you ever have a crazy day when expectations are flipped, and just when you think one thing is going to happen, the day flips again? Of course you have. If you’re paying attention, it probably happens every day in one way or another. But sometimes it happens in a very public way with 200 … Read more
I got a chance to visit with family during Thanksgiving and to play Euchre. If you’re not familiar, Euchre is a trick-taking card game with trump (like Bridge) using half the normal deck of cards (like Pinochle). Euchre’s one mind-bender is that the jacks of the color of trump become the most powerful trump cards. … Read more
If you’re just tuning in, this is the third installment about my uncle’s cottage, and you can catch up with the first two here. When last we spoke, a new weather phenomenon of sustained winds raised the waters of the Sandusky Bay above flood stage, putting a foot of water into the cottages along the … Read more
Along the shores of Lake Erie and its tributaries, there is a water snake that is not venomous but it has the magical power of making me crap my pants. I don’t like snakes, and these water snakes (scientific name: Bloomer Poopers) are nasty, slithering around like they own the place. I’m told they bite, … Read more