I was work at the barbershop finishing a customer who I had to seat in one of the hairdresser chairs as my barber chair was being serviced.   I was having a hard time shaving my customer’s neck and chin as the hairdresser had didn’t have a headrest and was quite low to the ground, forcing me into some very awkward and physically challenging postures in order to finish the shave.   As I was wiping the gentleman’s face clean, my mother walked into the shop in her usual disguise

I’m back in the old apartment at 6433 N. Washtenaw, the place where I lived from fourteen to eighteen. The kitchen is dark and Wendy is standing there, facing me but saying nothing at first. When I ask where she’s been, she says one word: “Poo.” I think I misheard her, so I ask again. She repeats it. “Poo.”   I move toward her and ask once more, trying to catch whatever she’s saying in the quiet of the kitchen. When I get close enough, she says it again— “poo” —and I see the

I was back in Chicago and I ran into Calvin Darling and his father.   We were talking and I asked Calvin what he had done with his life that I had tried to reach out to him many times on Facebook and he said that he had gone to Doctor’s College so I asked if he became a doctor and he said no and then I started talking to his father and realized we had been in an ice bath at a spa.   Calvin’s father said that he had lived out west and I said I thought I remembered the family

I was at the Dolnick center where there was a lot of activity going on.   I was upstairs in the auditorium and zayde was downstairs near the kitchen working on a small table with all kinds of papers.   There was a caretaker and the young woman assistant and my daughter Cassia was there with a friend, playing or doing something in the downstairs area.   Then, a woman who apparently was a friend of my grandmother’s came up to me accompanied by my grandfather and they proposed t

I had seen on TV that David Mamet was in town and had moved into a five star hotel in New York City. I was watching the news and a report it showed him walking down the street wearing a white linen suit with sandals and he had a beard and mustache and long gray hair that he wore in double braids pinned to the back of his head.   I decided to take advantage of the opportunity and knowing where the hotel was, I came up with a plan to go there and wait for him and at the right m

I was sent back to high school in Chicago to finish my last six credits and was put in a gym class where they were playing 16-inch softball for the whole semester.   The head coach was cranky African-American man/woman hybrid, and Adam Driver was the assistant coach.   At the beginning of the class, Driver was demonstrating some basketball techniques while shooting hoops in jeans, loafers, and a white button-down Oxford cloth shirt.   At one point, I approached Driver and int

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I was out for a stroll along the boardwalk enjoying a beautiful afternoon at the seaside. Suddenly, an adolescent black bear appeared...

I was on my way home and decided to pick up some food for dinner so I walked through town looking for a take out. Walking past a...

I was curious to know what words, if any, my father might have uttered on his deathbed, so I called my mother to ask. She said he did...

I was hired by a young female filmmaker who, in her email to me, said that her mother dated me back in the 1980s in Los Angeles when I...

We made a family pilgrimage to Wales so dad could have a final visit to where his ancestors came from. We spent the day at a library in...

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I met two Indian students on Devon Avenue who asked me if I could take them to the Bollywood-style theater downtown. As there were only...

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I was at the airport and a lovely young woman approached me and asked if I knew how to get to the city. I told her there was a public...

I was on the bus heading to Amsterdam and struck up a conversation with a gangly, middle-aged peroxide-blond-haired woman who became more...

I was visiting the navy base in Puerto Rico where my grandfather was stationed during World War II. He asked me to look for his old...

I got the call early in the morning that I was to report to a remote location, but my supervisor said when I arrived at the car rental...

I was riding in a limo that dropped me off at Winston Towers, where I had a date with Jill S. and I got there three hours early so I...