From the category archives:
Dreamland IX
I’ve been reading a paper — The Sexual Harassment of Uppity* Women by Jennifer L. Berdahl (Journal of Applied Psychology 2007, Vol. 92, No. 2, 425-437) — that posits that the target of sexual harassment is perhaps the woman who is least identified as being the target: that is, she is not [...]
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Dreamland VIII
Erin was divorced from an abusive husband. She had managed to stay in the relationship long enough for kids to arrive, but eventually she saw the light and dumped him. In her late twenties, she had already had her share of bad luck in the relationship department with her ex, but she never whined [...]
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Dreamland VII
By now it was pretty obvious that Sonny wasn’t the most faithful husband in the asylum, but his next trick really took the insanity to new levels.
Some of us were standing around shooting the breeze at lunchtime, looking for something to do or somewhere to go, when in walked a teenage girl. She announced [...]
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Dreamland VI
“Get out of town or I’ll chase you out with a .45,” the voice on the other end of the phone said, and then the line went dead.
My brain went into high gear as my life turned into an old-time radio show.
Familiar voice? No.
Am I sure? Yes.
Then it’s no joke.
Who have I pissed off? [...]
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Dreamland V
Sonny must have been messing around for a while with Celia’s email courtesy of pillow talk and passwords. I mean really, how else do you find out someone’s email password to their personal accounts? You’re either watching over their shoulder, or they outright give it to you. In either case, it’s not a good [...]
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Dreamland IV
Sonny’s affections were rather fickle. You could always tell when he was drawn to a new victim by the questions he asked: “What do you think of so-and-so?” “Did you see the blonde that was here yesterday?” Or, his old stand-by, “I invited ‘insert female employee name here’ out for dinner last night with [...]
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Dreamland III
Some years earlier, the old boy set one of his sons up and gave him a chance to run his own business over in the next town. Ever true to the family’s sense of accounting, Sonny eventually went bankrupt and left town with his tail between his legs. He tried his luck at a [...]
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Dreamland II
By the time I met him he was in his 80s. He had driven his first wife to death by alcohol. His second was running his business into the ground. His employees in the shop were robbing him blind. He was never happy with anything. Consequently he had plenty to scream about, and would [...]
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Dreamland
Where can you find all of the following:
the Golden Gate Bridge;
Universal Studios;
Santa Monica pier;
breaking waves;
the Santa Fe Depot train station;
the scent of pine trees, orange blossoms and ocean surf;
an aircraft carrier in San Diego Bay;
white-water rafting;
farmland, and farmers markets;
insects.
No, that wasn’t a test.
Once again, where can you find the following:
the Golden Gate Bridge, without the [...]
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