LETTERS

Letters to the editor and various organizations.

Rita Cormulley aka Ash, passed away in my arms, Friday, April 12th 2019

I maintain this site as a memorial to my love of 25 years.

She wrote many letters with pen and paper. When we met in 1994 Ash was not interested in computers.

I finally convinced her to start writing in a word processor and eventually post her writings online.

And Some of Us Are Clean As Well

While very much moved by a story of altruism during World War II, ash did not consider the subject too sacrosanct for a punchline at the expense...

We Business Types Stick Together

Read that first paragraph and ash knows: laugh out loud funny or cringe-worthy, it's tempting to go no further. Now take a gander at how much longer...

Rap is Crap

ash wrote this “tribute” to her least favorite cultural phenomenon years ago, as it was reaching the peak of its popularity (and her adolescent son...

Flip a Phrase

For another change of pace, here's a game ash calls "flip a phrase." It consists of taking a classic cliche or piece of conventional wisdom...

Travel Tales

In the following five-part true story, ash describes to her friend a recent trip to Chicago to celebrate ash’s father’s 90th birthday, her mother’s...

Jump in while the jumping is good

One of ash's favorite literary devices is what she calls "gentle sarcasm." In the following letter to her local daily, she addresses not merely what...