| Saboteur |
"Opinion
is ego masquerading as thought..." |
| Sailing
Away |
"ON
OCTOBER 4, 1834, my great-great-great-grandmother..." |
| Saint
Valentine's Day |
"SAINT
VALENTINE, the martyr, whose feast day is celebrated
on the 14th of February..." |
| Say
Goodnight, Gracie |
"A
FRIEND invited us to a play that he was in, and
so we went..." |
| Set
It In Caslon |
"Despite the undeniable
appeal of sans serif faces, they are not suitable
..." |
| Seven
Deadly Arts |
"PEOPLE DO SOME THINGS
just to be annoying. Just as there are Virtues
and Sins..." |
| Seven
Deadly Virtues |
"The
Seven Deadly Virtues are no more than the flip-side..." |
| Sex,
Violence and Rock 'n Roll |
"THE
Framers of the Constitution recognized that most
social..." |
| Share
The Wealth |
"RARE, but not so
much as to be wholly fabulous are the coins..." |
| Shifting
Gears |
"I USED TO DRIVE a
tomato-soup-red 1963 Volkswagen bug..." |
| Short
Skirts or Nothing Happens in a Vacuum |
"Graphic
artists are part of the greater pool of designers
who wrestle with the real..." |
| Silent
Reading |
"Saint
Augustine (354 - 430), Bishop of Hippo, experienced
an..." |
| Slack |
"IF
NOBODY EXPECTS too terribly much of you..." |
| Smoke
and Mirrors |
"GOLD
STREET in San Francisco, shades of old miners..." |
| Spring Planting |
"The
first spadefull of earth makes a sound..." |
| Stargazer |
"I AWAKENED ABOUT
FOUR this morning and stood in the backyard..." |
| Stupid
Little Lies |
"STANDING AT THE BAR
in Jupiter, a pub that sells draught Guinness" |
| Susan, the World Traveller |
"Susan, the world traveller, was
the pet of six-year-old Kristin." |
| Tantalus,
Zeno and Me |
"Tantalus,
king of Lydia, son of Jupiter, husband of Dione,
father of..." |
| Tears
of Joy |
"THERE ARE SUCH THINGS,
but by comparison they are rare. Beauty can bring
tears..." |
| Thalassa,
Thalassa! |
"ONLY A FOOL tells a sailor that he
has not seen somethin..." |
| The Alphabet in Alphabetical Order |
"The Alphabet in Alphabetical Order..." |
| The Gift |
"Gifts are never between equals. The giver always assumes an ascendancy..." |
| There's
No Time Like the Present |
"After
the countdown, spang-on at midnight straight
up, as if by a miracle..." |
| The Thing That Isn't There Anymore
is Still There |
"My house was built in 1923, and
though it had electrical wiring..." |
| The Tooth Devil |
"Chatting with Arianna Shemmer, an amiable six-year-old..." |
| Those
Old Guys |
"REAL
EMOTION falls back on cliché. In times
of sorrow as well as times of joy..." |
| Time
and Space |
"A
fundamental property of elements is that they
are made up of atoms..." |
| Traveler |
"A
lonely bed in a foreign land, in a different
place at a different time.." |
| Traveling Companion |
"AS MY FLIGHT PREPARED
FOR TAKEOFF, a horrid smell wafted back..." |
| Triumph of the Won't |
"My parents dutifully voted in every election...." |
| Two Thousand Acres... |
"MY ABSOLUTELY LEAST
FAVORITE part of a relationship is meeting..." |
| Vae
Victis |
"ALL'S
FAIR in love and war, we hear at a tender age..." |
| Venus |
"On
September 25, 1991, between 6:15 and 6:45am local
time in Padua..." |
| Veteran |
"ON
AUGUST 28, 1861, my great-great-grandfather went
to town..." |
| Village
of the Darned |
"HECK
is the residence of the eternally darned..." |
Viva Italia!
|
"QUITE
AN EVENTFUL couple of months..." |
| Voices of Youth |
"In 1962, when I was a Junior at
Castlemont high school..." |
| War
with the Squirrels |
"SQUIRRELS
DON'T UNDERSTAND a lot of things..." |
| Welcome
to Heaven |
"WHEN
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BURNED..." |
| We
Used to Sing |
"MY
great-grandmother sang songs from the Civil War
era.." |
| What
Did Posterity Ever Do For Me? |
"WHAT
DO I CARE? I have engendered no hostages..." |
What is an Artist? |
"Obviously,
an artist is someone who creates art..." |
| What
Rhymes with Orange? |
HOT
AS THE HINGES OF HELL, Sacramento summers... |
| What
They do in Heaven |
"The
batter steps up to the plate, spits, waggles
the bat around experimentally and swings hard ..." |
Where
Ideas Come From
|
"You
have to kiss a lot of frogs in order to find
a prince..." |
| White
Skies |
"SOMETIMES
in the summer, when it's really hot, the sky
instead of being blue..." |
| Why
Are We in Vietnam? |
"TWO
CITY FELLERS visiting out in the country have
to go ..." |
| Wiggly
Lines |
"THE
designer is, in effect, setting tasks for other
people. If the designs are good,..." |
| Wish
Fulfillment |
"ADAM
LOOKED AROUND the Garden of Eden and after a
while he noticed..." |
| Wounds
Not Mortal |
"SIMPLY
PUT, there are only two kinds of wounds: ones
that kill you ..." |
| Wrong
Number |
"FROM
TIME TO TIME I telephone my mother. Sometimes
to catch up on what's going on..." |
| Your're
Not Going Out Like That |
"YOU
KNOW IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT, and she's not dressed
that way..." |
