Trivia was king in the Leonardos’ roost. Melody Leonardo, the eldest daughter, made it all the way to Fresno to try out for the celebrated long-running trivia show with the host, Alicia Tribeca. She was a sure shoe-in to make…
Trivia was king in the Leonardos’ roost. Melody Leonardo, the eldest daughter, made it all the way to Fresno to try out for the celebrated long-running trivia show with the host, Alicia Tribeca. She was a sure shoe-in to make…
Delaney was tired of watching baseball, football, hockey, basketball – everything shy of underwater basket-weaving as an Olympic sport. Delaney’s husband, Patrick Smalley, was a used car salesman for over 20 years. More than half of those years were spent…
On his adventurous journey, Harvey Mangrove, a biologist from University of California, set off to South Africa in search of plants and vegetation that were thought to be extinct, but now appeared to have resurrected. Little did he know that…
It was the worst of it she thought, forgetting to turn the burner off after boiling a pot of water. It was not the forgetfulness, but also the indifference about mostly everything. Out of the blue, she received a letter…
“Spring forth,” he told her. She initially chucked at that advice until she saw a show on TV that featured the mineral springs of Iceland. It prompted to do some research on the Internet and she found that there were…
My childhood was not a typical, “normal” childhood. In fact, the star of my family has always been my mother. You see, while most typical childhoods consisted of typical, quite consistent weekends, mine was full of movement and actually dappled…
Even though he grew up in the archipelago, Tristan da Cunha, a five to six day boat ride from Cape Town, South Africa, the most remote inhabited island in the South Atlantic, Sean Paletta was allergic to fish. It was…
It was not fair that the guys were able to go fishing in the Florida Keys and leave them with the kids, as they did periodically. This time, Julia and Nadine packed the children and took them to their grandparents…
Everett Winslow, an accountant for many years, specialized doing tax returns for his clients. He did not particularly like to crunch numbers and deal with some of his sordid, shady clients, however. Instead, would sometimes retreat to playing basketball at…
“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.” – E.E. Cummings “Stop this madness,” Willimina howled, as she accidentally stepped in a puddle with her new designer heels. Willimina Hayslett just flew into Los Angeles from New York City to visit her…