I've been writing short, non-fiction stories about my life for the last 15 years. I do it for personal enjoyment, and when I become senile these will become new experiences once again. I was filing most of them and forgetting about them. It seemed like a terrible waste of good writing (my opinion), so I decided to put them on my web site. Besides, it's a lot easier than trying to get them published. The ones with "new" after them mean they were written in the last three months, and the ones with * after them were actually published.