"The best-laid plans of mice and men go oft awry"- Rober Burns, To a Mouse [The mousetrap set recalls a long-forgotten incident in the producer's first residence in Toronto.] (more)

Of a cat, a Necessary, litter, and oh yeah, mice. (more)

What mice find offensive is the fact that these traps are not only lethal, but also cheap, low quality imports. (Don't mess with the mice.) (more)

The "Miss Cholita" pageant celebrates a female ideal that is fast disappearing among Bolivian indigenous women. This year, the pageant was shaken by a scandal: the winner had turned out to have been wearing fake braids. (more)

The courageous story of one coffee mug trying to get by in a house of people he hates. (Writing from the perspective of the mug in the first person, present tense.) (more)

A dollar store addict is confronted with a horrifying discovery among the aisles. (more)

Both brief reflection on mousetraps and a nod to Wallace Stevens. (more)

Long before the women's movement even had a name, some Oak Park girls began questioning tradition without even knowing they were doing so. (more)

Mousetraps and other intersections between human beings and mice. (more)

You think you're being mature and courageous, trait which will surely be rewarded with reciprocal sentiments of love...right? (more)