Essays

Oh, for the chance to get everything you ever wanted...but what do you really want?

Memories have a way of editing themselves -- especially holiday ones.

Micki Morency is a Haitian-American, born in Port-au-prince Haiti. She grew up with six siblings in a very close knit family. She came to the US in 1973 with her family and settled in Massachusetts, graduating from Northeastern University with a BS in Finance in 1981. For many years, she worked as a Bank Auditor, before finding her calling as an advocate for the elderly, the young and the disabled.

Do you see the flaws or the people you think have them?

And are the beauty queens still beautiful? What about at their 40th reunion?

A traveling itch invades, and drags Mr. Donnelly off to the Land of the Rising Sun.

Well, peanut butter can be nutritious, can't it?

Join Phillip Donnelly in his travel over Dublin's Liffey River.

Love, companionship, nuturing...it's all there with Maggie.

This week's featured blog asks an important question of all writers.

Is the trend towards casual dress a good thing?

Harvey explains the photo:"...my dad, me and my older son, Andy -- my dad's first grandchild -- as we leave to take Andy fishing for the first time."

Barry Kirwan shares some ideas about life after death in science fiction stories in this week's featured blog.

Which would you rather have? Money or happiness?

If you don't know what life is about, good and bad alike, how will you prepare for it?

In this week's Featured Blog, Wendy Robards talks about the charitable organization Gone Reading, and its work providing funding for libraries around the world.

This week's featured blog by J.J. Green tells us that "...evidence of our ancestors lies yet to be found, beneath ice and water."

Have we evolved into a culture of fantasy and nit-picking?

Should a person know to pronounce words correctly when they visit a foreign land?

Don't give up on being young -- you can't bring it back when it's gone.

Should we complain about misfortunes?

The Piker Press is pleased to begin featuring blog entries from our listed bloggers. This week, Sam Gridley and his tangled web of great fortune...

JH Mae is a feature journalist and short fiction writer based in rural northern New York.

Bench Warming in New York is a seating chart to a collection of real-life New York dioramas. Have a seat, relax, and let the city tell its stories and entertain you.

Don't just do something, sit there. -- Zen Proverb

...And pretty much all Wikipedia has to say about this "census-designated place" is that it has 19,299 residents. Nick Noyes knows more than that about Sun Valley.

J.J. Green is a British freelance science writer currently living in Taipei, Taiwan, where she writes on the natural environment and imaginary worlds.

Harvey Silverman is a retired physician living in Manchester, NH. He writes primarily for his own enjoyment.

But what if it was a big load of Elvis blankets? Or designer shoes?

A Mother's Day gift for your sweetie? Here's some timely advice...