enter the fray: our reader discussion forum

Browse by Tags

My Favorite Mother's Day
She walked slowly across the room, orange juice sloshing onto the tray, in spite of her efforts not to tilt it. A towel flung over one shoulder, he followed close behind, a small dish balanced precariously in one hand. They stopped at the foot of the bed. ''Now, Shell?'' he asked, in a loud stage whisper. ''When I count three,'' she whispered ...
Posted to Culturebox by Gayle Mattern on May 10, 2009
The Beatles Concerts, Live and in Vivid Insanity
It was August, 1964. I had waited all summer for the unbelievable day when I was finally going to get to see the Beatles in the flesh. My freshman year had been spent huddled with friends during breaks between classes, listening to Beatles music on miniature transistor radios with naugahide covers. Even from those tinny little boxes, the music ...
Posted to Culturebox by Gayle Mattern on January 10, 2009
In An Unorthodox Move, Grandpa Proves The Existence of Santa
All the glum economic talk is enough to make us want to fold up our Christmas trees and forget about the holidays. I've been thinking, though, about my grandparents, who lived in a kind of permanent recession, which raising nine kids will do. There was never enough money to go around, needless to say. In the early years they farmed, and later ...
Posted to Culturebox by Gayle Mattern on December 24, 2008