Category Archives: The Daily

Welcome to Camp Strange!

Thank you for vis­it­ing Camp Strange, my lit­tle cor­ner of the online world. This site con­tains a col­lec­tion of some of the sto­ries I have writ­ten over the past 6 years since I first began blog­ging at the now-defunct Beauty Dish, as well as new sto­ries. You can read some of my fun­ni­est Avon Lady

Data’s Dog

Data, Star Trek: The Next Gen­er­a­tion’s android sci­ence offi­cer, shared his star­ship quar­ters with a sleek cat named Spot. Data wanted to be human, wanted to under­stand what makes some of us choose choco­late over vanilla, what makes us gig­gle when tick­led, the strange and etheric con­nec­tions that tie our species together. A cat’s fiercely

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When my youngest son, Mar­tin, chased gap-toothed girls through a dusty school­yard, he car­ried a tiny Star Trek shut­tle­craft in the front pocket of his jeans. “Vroooooooooom! Ba-ba-ba-ba-bing! Bing!” The shut­tle­craft — tor­pe­dos armed and ready — made the noise of a boy’s pursed lips. It flew grace­ful arcs, one hand over head, around body, swooped

This Old House

I’m work­ing on the This Old House issue of my regional arts mag­a­zine, and in the process of writ­ing a story on pen­i­ten­tiary tiles, I began to think about my adopted home town, Las Vegas, New Mex­ico.… ——- My home­town in New Eng­land held a node on the Rev­o­lu­tion­ary road. Most of the towns­peo­ple —