What do you do when confronted with a white space?

Fill it with something. This is something that doodlers need never be told. The creative urge plus that incomprehensible desire to mess up (or improve) what's there combine into a potent mixture ... possibly aided and abetted by the desire to occupy yourself for the length of the phone call.

Though I hope that perhaps these stories might garner a bit more than phone call leftovers (honest, I don't write while I'm on the phone; I'm simply running with my metaphor), my earnest desire is that someone else might find these to be funny, sweet, curious, inspiring ... or, the most boring word in the universe, interesting.

So that's that -- white space filled (or at least not totally blank anymore) ...