Fan Fiction: Reimagining Bonanza
The first story I wrote was fan fiction, although I had never heard of fan fiction when I wrote it. It may not have even been a genre in the year I was 14. The story was a takeoff on the popular TV show, Bonanza...
A Father in his Day
My father was a father in the time before fathers jogged and took boys’ weekends and, even, God forbid, attended book club meetings. He was a father in a time when being a wage earner was a seven-day-a-week job. When a man did not take a day off because [...]
Why Mom’s Stories Matter
When my mother was a child in the 1920s, Sundays were for family. Relatives began arriving at the double-decker house in the city soon after Mass. A ham or roast was slid into the oven and potatoes were put on to boil ...