Maybe It Is Genetic — A visit to the eye doctor had me laughing! I was there for yet another type of eye test. This is the fourth or fifth visit. I’ve lost track, the doctor just can’t figure out what is wrong with my eye. …

Truth-Writing for pennies pays better than my savings account. — I read the headlines of how people make $100 on an article, a million in a month (okay just one of those). You’ve seen them. The unending stream of “I’ve made a fortune, so can you” posts on Medium. I’ve published 154 pieces in 11.5 months and I have $…

My profile- last update June 2022-Hit the 1K club!! — I’ve had a very eclectic life — Waitress, Actress, Zoo Curator, Story Teller, Poet, Exhibit Designer, Writer, Farmer and Educator. I write stories, poems, essays based on all my eclectic experiences. I’ve published over 200 articles on Medium.com. Here are a few articles that have done well. I Need a Phone Divorce I said to the AT&T Service Representative You’re not alone he replied.medium.com

Day one — first touch — cool waves of blue smoke rise to the ceiling conjuring whiskey visions in cut glass laughter echoing off flocked papered walls music rolling across phantom lovers floating on a smokey blue haze river desperately wanting to be a couple disappearing in the blue haze lost in each other merged into a new one…

Then not so much — Six-year-olds with missing teeth are stinkin’ adorable. That toothless grin is the image of the future. On the far end of the spectrum, a 60-year-old with missing teeth is not adorable.

Mine sure doesn’t — I can’t spell — dyslexia and all — and I wanted the word scrawny for a poem. Every version I typed was redlined. It was the only word that would do. You writers of poetry know what I mean-that one and only Goldilocks word that fits “just right.” Plan B…

But not by my choice, HELP! — I bought the farm 9 years ago. A beautiful 11 acre chunk of upstate New York with a huge fenced in garden/orchard area. The property had been abandoned for three years. Bringing it back from the brink of re-forestation was a chore and a half! I’ve left about 5 acres…

Helped me make an important decision — I am approaching the retirement intersection. So many questions, options, too many really. Do I come to a full stop? Do I do a rolling stop? Do I take a left turn, travel roads never traveled? Do I take a right turn, the familiar well trod path? …

You’re not alone he replied. — My ex-man/boyfriend, oh let’s call him my faux-beau, charmed me into adding a phone-line for him on my work-discounted phone plan. The choice to allow this addition to my phone bill created a reoccuring resentment on my part. The phone bill paved the path to the end. I had to…