They did it in secret at first. It was the only way to ensure the integrity of the intended outcome. Getting the girls to volunteer was easy, and word of mouth spread quickly and quietly. You were either for the cause or you weren’t, and females had a way of flocking together with like minded … Continue reading Out of Sight – Chpt 1 →

Hi, I’m Nic and this is my very best friend Headache. We’re like conjoined twins only we didn’t get connected until I was eight years old and Headache introduced itself by practically splitting my head in two, making light hurt my eyes and causing me to vomit uncontrollably. I mean, really, I vomited on the … Continue reading Hammer Head →

Back a hundred years ago when I and my girlfriends were all divorced and single, there was a period of time where we were all dating guys from the same friend group. This happens when one of you starts dating someone and when you meet their friends they are like, “So do you have any … Continue reading The Front Page →

When I was twelve years old I dreamt about swimming in a pool. It was an indoor pool in a dimly lit mostly concrete and tile room, sort of Roman bath style. There was a giant window, almost the whole wall, made out of those blocks of glass that you can’t see through, on one … Continue reading Running Down a Dream →

Do you remember Ann Landers and Dear Abby? I was thinking about them the other day, those two advice giving sisters, and wondering how their advice had aged. Were their views old fashioned and out dated? Are they “Karens” now? I used to read their columns every day. (In an actual newspaper!) I had this … Continue reading Dear Nic →

Provençal/ psalmody Psalter/ pterodactyl Those were the four words my trusty dictionary gave me when I opened it, like I sometimes do, for a writing prompt. “That,” I said to myself, “is definitely a sign.” The universe wants me to NOT write today. I did read the definitions, go down a little rabbit hole googling … Continue reading Four Things You (Maybe) Didn’t Know →

Lately I find myself wanting to complain about something but not complaining because I know my little whiny complaints are nothing in the grand scheme of things. So they are all building up inside of me, these things I want to complain about. I want to let them out. I’m about to get whiny. Look … Continue reading Something Else →

The Circus Family (named by a guy at our hotel one year who saw us coming and said to my sister, whom he didn’t know was with us, “Oh, here comes the circus”) has returned from our twentieth anniversary Michigan trip. Of course, though it’s been twenty summers, because of COVID it’s only 19 trips. … Continue reading Vacation 2021 →

When she was a teenager, Lily was so distraught over something that she can’t even remember now, that she ran off into the woods, to the big tree she had always looked to for comfort. She sat down on the mossy, grassy ground and cried her problems out one by one. Though she begged it … Continue reading Heavy Hearted →

I was thinking about the time, feeling like I had missed out on something big, I broke into Studio 54 in Las Vegas, when it was closed, by myself, and got busted by security, whom I plied with my feminine wiles before being escorted away. This story is true, but also it is fiction. This … Continue reading It’s Kind of a Funny Story →