Emerald City

Long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, my vacuum cleaner called it quits right in the middle of a major Saturday cleaning event. We had t...

(Short fiction by Luana Krause) So I went for this job interview at a bank, and like, it was so weird. I waited for, like, ten minutes in th...

Dear Diary: It's spring in Memphis and this morning I saw my first robin. He was sitting on the branch of that giant sycamore in the fro...

What did the digital clock say to its mother? "Look, Ma! No hands!"

Okay. So I'm watching the Wild Card Show on American Idol, which was recorded on my DVR because I was singing at my Cheyenne Harmony re...

Today a work colleague used the word "sartorial" in describing his tie. None of us knew what "sartorial" meant, so we op...

It's funny how a song will reach out from the past and deliver a personal message just for you. A message that you need to hear and that...

Yep. I'm in the baking mood. Been doing it since December getting ready for the holidays. It all started on Thanksgiving when I made a N...

"Nurture your hopes. Not your fears." --- Billy Graham" "A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities....

One of my favorite poets, Langston Hughes, was born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri . Today marks the 107 th anniversary of his birt...

As a child, the only classical music I'd ever heard was in Bugs Bunny and Tom & Jerry cartoons (Rossini's Barber of Seville, Tc...

January Trees a poem by Luana Krause I arise at dawn and wait for first light. The frost takes my breath away. Wrapped in a cocoon of cold, ...

My letter to the editor was in the local newspaper this morning. I was responding to the editor's article about summer school. Here'...

Another reason to like President Obama...he's a BlackBerry user, too! I have no idea how I survived life all those years before the inve...

The other day I dug out my guitar from the closet and dusted it off. We're going to visit my folks in April and I want to be able to pla...

Sheriff Al Chambers here. On December 20, we took Norman Bates into custody for the murder of Marian Crane, Milton Arbogast and several othe...

I'm writing a story for my three youngest grandchildren for their birthdays. They will all be five years old this year. I've decided...