Pop culture in the mid-20th century included Playboy magazine, the one men claimed they bought to read the articles, not to “appreciate” the model spreadeagled in the centerfold. Published by Hugh Hefner, the rag doubled-down on an image of women’s role that the Second Wave of feminism of the 1970s…

I crafted this fiction for a contest in 2018. The assignment was to pick one of a pair of opening and closing lines from a published author, and write a different story in between. Of the four authors available, I picked Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man (1932). …

My New York-JFK to Boston Logan-BOS airport connecting flight was delayed from its originally scheduled departure at 3:12 PM (arrival 4:40 PM). The plane actually departed at 10:52 PM and arrived at 11:36 PM. This excessive 6:56-hour delay was officially calculated by Dubious Airlines. Their note apologized sincerely for my…