

“Mrs. Olsen Never Smiled”
A profile of a peculiar woman who continues to inhabit the recesses of my childhood memories I guess I’m going to speak ill of the dead....

Ahhh...glamour in a graceless age.
When just out of college I worked for one year at a family owned department store in Milwaukee called “Chapmans”. I needed a job to...

fop.
fop. fop was never meant to be a compliment. it was used to describe some men who fretted about their clothes and appearance and the...

ugly.
ugly. i think along with “suitability”--ugly is one of the worst words in the english language. ugly. the word says it all. lives are...

mother.
mother. i don’t know if anyone would choose to be a mother if they really knew what they were in for. it’s not unlike choosing to be a...

original.
original. one of the greatest words ever. and one that can today be applied so sparingly. originals are still highly regarded and to many...