Coupon Queen
A neighbor knocked on my door and asked for drug money; actually I don’t know she’s my neighbor at all except last year, a few… Read More »Coupon Queen
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A&E and the Story of Retirement
We all know the story: Eve plucks the apple from the Tree and God shows her and hubby Adam where to find the time clock.… Read More »A&E and the Story of Retirement
Robin Williams Plays a Homeless Man
what a Chabad past telephone poles to the top of the World Trade Tower brought me back down to earth thinking it wasn’t me who blew out the candles
Mosquitoes Create Jobs
It’s been a year since I arrived in the northeastern portion of Louisiana, a wilderness and a wonderland to a northerner who has never lived… Read More »Mosquitoes Create Jobs
Here’s How I Got a Job
My short story, “How I Landed a Job” appears in the Winter Solstice issue of riverbabble in cooperation with Pandemonium Press joined by outstanding Bay… Read More »Here’s How I Got a Job
Albuquerque to Zanzibar
My public persona was shaping up, consorting on the Internet with food banks from Albuquerque to Zanzibar. If she was planning to make a living,… Read More »Albuquerque to Zanzibar
A Star Trek of the Stomach
(More from the Leftover Chef) My idea was to “create a brand” for myself, which is what my job club had advised. I could teach… Read More »A Star Trek of the Stomach
Birth of the Leftover Chef
One afternoon before the close of the fiscal year I received a phone call. As a member of the union’s executive team, I guessed the… Read More »Birth of the Leftover Chef
American Dream Sequence
It was a humzinger of a dream, baby, I dreamed it for you, baby. Gypsy Rose Lee put away your feathers. Things get muddled with… Read More »American Dream Sequence
Unemployment Statistics
This is a story of two coffee shops that face each other on opposite sides of the street. One is General Arthur’s, named after a… Read More »Unemployment Statistics