She couldn’t see the writing on the wall. Or, if she did perceive it dimly from time to time, she dismissed it; maybe she was…

We were all eating lunch in the office at the last school I worked at when one of our students, Rani, came running in, breathless,…

Shelby wondered how much she'd changed in fourteen years. Track star, zero-body-fat Matt looked nothing like how she'd left him at high school graduation and…

Oh, something HAS changed…”within me….something is not the same”…..Once a melody haunts me, it stays with me…Especially when that melody meets the moment, as this…

"Benny," I said, in a whisper-shout because court would be in session at any moment. "Yeah." Gruff and manly, that's how I like them. Not…

Hands I have held and loved Take the grounds into the filter and hand me the cup Knowing how you take it and you need…

Words. Words, words, words! Hamlet exclaims. He is annoyed with not only the superficiality of what people say, but the betrayal of those words as…

I've eaten my whole plate. Like my mother told me to do back when I was four. When making dinner last night, I looked into…

Near my home is a large,empty field. A few tall weeds have broken through the dirt and probable tarmac beneath. It won’t be empty for…

I’m never at a loss for words. Since i got into the habit of writing in journals, filling many invitingly blank white pages, when i…

It was only a wisp,” Marnie said. “But I felt it.” “A wisp,” her husband said. He’d repeated her word, but his glance was skeptical.…

I run away from home almost every day. Well, I trot or walk away from home. I don't run. I began a new work schedule…