• When Your Dream Charges You $10,000

    My first thought for the sentence you’re reading now was not child-friendly, and I know I’ve got kid readers. Let me start again. (adults, you can translate) Holy. Bonking. Poop. Out of nowhere,…

  • The Big Chop – Cutting My Hair Off

    “You’re sure? Absolutely sure? Because once I start, there’s no going back!” The hair stylist brushed my long pink hair out, one eyebrow raised. I’d just come in, asking to have most of…

  • Monotony, and the First Snow

    It snowed today, crisp white crystals sailing down from above to stick to my scarf, my hat, my umbrella, my tongue. The first snow of the season. Do the weather gods know that…

  • Fall on Alfred St.

    Life on Alfred St. has been quiet of late. The fall storms have begun to saunter in, blowing across the lake in cold grey puffs and hiding the blue sky. It drizzles chilly…