Iced Coffee Illusion

Iced Coffee Illusion or: 7-11, how could you? Yesterday I forgot my insulated cup for my tasty ‘coffee chiller’ at 7-11. I was despondent since I don’t want to pay $1.49 for a medium, when I can pay that and get a refill in my large insulated, dedicated chiller coffee cup. The sadness lasted until […]

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June 4, 2013

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Memorial Day

For me, the best, truest part of Memorial Day doesn’t come on Memorial Day, or on the weekend we celebrate it: it comes the week after, and it really isn’t so much a Memorial Day thing as a Veterans Day thing.  Whatever you call it, it reminds me of what is important. Today was the […]

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June 2, 2013

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Writing my first flash fiction

I wrote my first flash fiction yesterday, and it was oddly more challenging that I’d expected.  There are the standard concerns: will I be able to come up with something for a prompt and have it ready to post within 24 hours; I’m posting in front of strangers, who are reading for the flash, not […]

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June 1, 2013

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