by Richie Smith | Apr 16, 2018 | Curbside Consults
RICHIE SMITH About Writing Blog Media Links Contact Search for: About Writing Blog Media Links Contact Kisses Before Death I kissed two patients in hospitals before they died. I’m not talking about family. These were people I hardly knew. The first was my first...
by Richie Smith | Apr 3, 2017 | 64 Crayola Confessions
RICHIE SMITH About Writing Blog Media Links Contact Search for: About Writing Blog Media Links Contact Crayola Confessions: Part II Recently, on National Crayon Day, Crayola announced the official retirement of the “Dandelion” crayon....
by Richie Smith | Jan 29, 2017 | Memoir
RICHIE SMITH About Writing Blog Media Links Contact Search for: About Writing Blog Media Links Contact The Distillation of Dad Years before he began to wither and weaken from Parkinsonism, my father told me that after he started working as a chemical engineer, he went...
by Richie Smith | May 1, 2016 | Memoir
RICHIE SMITH About Writing Blog Media Links Contact Search for: About Writing Blog Media Links Contact I Was a Boy Who Played With Dolls It was the Mission Impossible TV show that peaked my interest in GI Joes–the idea that any record of my evil ideas would...
by Richie Smith | Mar 13, 2016 | 64 Crayola Confessions
RICHIE SMITH About Writing Blog Media Links Contact Search for: About Writing Blog Media Links Contact 64 Crayola Confessions (part I) Apricot: I laughed when someone choked on a pit. In cinema? In life. Aquamarine: my grandmother gave me her silver...