Tag: family
member name: Greg Schiller
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December 14, 2009 07:18 PM EST --
Raise your hand if you have ever changed a flat tire.
Okay, put your hands down.
Now, who has waged that battle with the emergency equipment found in the typical trunk?
Okay, you can stop . . .
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January 12, 2007 12:54 PM EST --
Our society is so devoted to the notion of gender equality that we have rewritten the procedures by which police and firefighters do their job. For instance, instead of requiring firefighters . . .
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December 09, 2006 07:50 PM EST --
Albert could not remember much before today, and all he remembered of today was the explosion and violence of a college kid kicking open his door and roughing him into the hall. All of Albert’s stuff . . .
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November 27, 2008 11:09 AM EST --
No one described home better than the poet Robert Frost
In Death of the Hired Man , he wrote, "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in."
And so it . . .
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January 18, 2007 01:23 PM EST --
I tend to believe that people confuse "free love" with affordable sex. Love itself can never be free because it costs to love and love not shared equally costs the most.
Unlike the grace offered to . . .
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June 23, 2007 08:16 AM EDT --
Critique Welcome
A short story told in dialogue:
I need to be with her when she is put down.
Of course, but let me warn you that death does not always come peacefully . . .
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February 17, 2007 12:48 PM EST --
My wife is out of town for a month. She calls daily from the warmth of Florida to remind me that she is wearing short sleeves outdoors while I am bundled in a heavy sweater indoors.
Here in Minnesota, . . .
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March 12, 2007 05:29 PM EDT --
Tired of winter and buoyed by a recent warming of the weather, I tell my wife, "We need to see waves on blue water. Let's take a weekend trip."
"Are we going to Florida?" . . .
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June 14, 2007 11:13 PM EDT --
Finally, Minnesota summer!
I have waited months, through arctic weather and the blink called spring, for a chance to kayak the winding channels, finger islands, and sloughs of the Upper . . .
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November 16, 2006 07:47 PM EST --
Last spring I rented a mustang convertible to retrace the winding coastal track where I had hitch-hiked 40 years ago. Driving toward Big Sur through a cold coastal fog, . . .
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November 27, 2006 10:27 AM EST --
After retreating into the shade of a bar beside a Minnesota bike trail, I realized that heaven is really hell, and that I did not want to go there.
This insight struck while listening to the bartender . . .
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January 30, 2007 07:52 AM EST --
"So what would we do if we won the Lotto? The jackpot is over $200 million!!"
That was my wife's signal to focus on her rather than on my latest issue of The Economist. She . . .
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April 08, 2007 01:49 PM EDT --
Sgt. Schultz pulled his squad behind a Volkswagen Beetle blocking the south bound lane of River Road. The little white car puttered at an uneasy idle, its air-cooled engine rattling a loose . . .
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April 08, 2007 04:41 PM EDT --
Schultz glanced through the front door window to check things out before knocking. Just inside, the three-speed bicycle he had expected to see at the accident scene rested against the wooden rails of a . . .
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April 08, 2007 05:07 PM EDT --
The resemblance was too close for coincidence, but it was not perfect.
Katie parted her hair on the left; the victim on the right. Katie was left handed and wore her watch on the right; the victim's . . .
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April 08, 2007 05:23 PM EDT --
Schultz spoke with the business editor at the Tribune to get some background on Control Data Corporation. He learned that the company appeared from behind the cloak of a secret Navy project during World . . .
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April 08, 2007 05:31 PM EDT --
A large naked man known as "Father of Waters" keeps an eye on the comings and goings of Minneapolis City Hall. He reclines on a granite pedestal in the rotunda where he coyly extends the large . . .
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April 08, 2007 05:36 PM EDT --
Epilogue
On a morning in late October 1995, Schultz retrieved a frost hardened copy of the Star Tribune from his lawn. He poured a mug of coffee and settled to read by the light of a weak sun burning . . .
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May 03, 2007 06:04 PM EDT --
Critique welcome
In a canyon west of Boulder Colorado, Meg eased Allen's Volkswagen down a rutted road dogging the course of a noisy brook. The lane crossed and re-crossed the stream . . .
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May 12, 2008 06:54 AM EDT --
My ex-wife waged endless war over the mess in our kid's bedrooms.
She was a master of command and control who viewed every tiff over cleaning as the final battle of Armageddon. . . .
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