Alter Egos

Who Else Am I?

There’s a lot about Stephen A. Schrum on this site, but I thought I’d introduce you to my other personalities…


Please Don’t Hand Me Your Trash

What is it about women who hand me their trash? Do all women do this? Do men ever do this? To explain: my late wife would do this all the time; she had some item or items of trash and, rather than walk them to a receptacle, would hand them over to me. And not…

Night of the Burning Posse

This is another of those crazy memories that just pop unbidden into my brain. At Temple University, the theatre majors were a pretty closely knit group. Oh, of course there was gossip and back-biting (I quote myself: “My mother always said, if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all, or go into…

Commence to Begin

I’m always amazed to see kindergarten, middle school, and all other kinds of milestone graduation ceremonies. This never occurred to us when we were kids. We moved straight from grade to high school. Our grade school was grades 1 to 8, and when grade 8 was finished, there was no ceremony. For us there were…