Dance Under The Stars Day? I know what you’re thinking: today is Valentine’s Day. Yes it is but today also goes by this other name in the faraway place of Moonwater Meadow. That’s where Ollie Bug, Adventure Spider lives. NOTE: I usually post humor fiction or motivational stories. However, most of my work centers around…
Fear is an inside job. Fear is sneaky and devious. It will deflect and distract until you shrink away from your goals blaming everyone from your parents to your dog but it’s really you causing all that ruckus. Stepping up to the challenge of getting what you want from life isn’t easy. You do the…
A good will post-holiday observation: We took the Christmas tree down on January 5th. After days of preparation and care setting up, it all just disappeared in one day. It was like a pop-up art installation. Just like the sudden spike in good will and “holiday cheer”. Some people put the decorations up a few…
Maybe model rockets aren’t very sexy but as a boy I wasn’t very athletic so it was that or stamp collecting. At least I could fly rockets. The Estes Big Bertha was an intermediate model and easy to assemble. It had a 500 feet ceiling and stood a proud but slightly obnoxious two feet tall. …
I powered up my laptop. It buzzed, spit and fizzled with a little plume of smoke. The screen went blank. This is unusual. Normally it smiles at me and says, “Ahoy, Tommy! Where ya been?” My laptop, upon which I had become creatively and financially dependent checked out. I had a few choices: buy a…
Flatulence and driving do not mix. I was on a ride with my pal, Chick. What kind of name is Chick for a guy, you ask? Well, it’s not. We met on the beach. I was collecting shells and he was lying there like a beached whale in the sand all tanned and bloated, tiny…
Top Ten Reasons Books (and Reading) Suck By Tom Serafini File under Satire. Unless you know someone to whom this applies… Books. Who needs ’em? I mean, Everyone is so busy these days. Who has the time to read a whole actual book? I don’t. I’m so busy with all my social media posts and…
An Ollie Bug story that begins with the indisputable fact that spiders do not fly. Spiders can do many marvelous and impressive things. They can spin webs and hang from them in a menacing manner. Although very scary, they’re really using the web to get better TV or radio reception. They can jump and bounce…
What, you’ve never heard of Groundfrog Day? Well, in Moonwater Meadow the groundfrog comes out today to see if can spot its reflection in a mirror. If it does then we get six more weeks of winter. If it can’t see its reflection then we have an undead groundfrog vampire. And then we have…
I once went for a hypnotherapy session at the suggestion of a friend who was the hypnotherapist. I was chewing on too much confusion about all the creative voices in my head. All the serious writers, beatnik prose-masters, whimsical artists, musicians and maybe even a racing mechanic were always clamoring for attention. She thought a…