Dear 2020, What made you awful isn't over yet. Here in the United States, until a new President is sworn in, the Reign of Error…

We were sitting on the porch sipping coffee when a sudden rain started pounding the desert, the sky still blue. Jake said: "We should build…

Before I sat to write, I lit two candles—one on my altar table to the left of my chair, and the other on my Virgin…

Some days the world is so beautiful that it is almost difficult to bear. Today is one of those days, the sunlight slanting with its…

[Ongoing story of two brothers. Here is Merrill, the one trying to stay clean after he's relapsed. He's meeting the girl (Shea) he'd started seeing…

He'd had the chest pains for weeks, but he had no place to put them. His doctor could not locate a source. He had not…

When love leaves the ink dries and contracts are shredded We feign indifference The departing formerly beloved means it Because the opposite of love is…

The therapist told her she needed to process her grief. As though grief were a batch of vegetables you wanted to make into a puree,…

I got up at 7am which is unheard of for me these days and zoomed with my grandkids and some of my kids! It was…

The second worst job I ever had was as a topless sea anemone at a strip club on Columbus and Broadway. It paid $25 for…

I"ll never forget that fateful day when my then 16-year-old son Stevie and his friend Sam rode with me to the City Dump in Salem,…

It’s an old fashioned kind of a place, a grand hotel although I doubt that it still has those kinds of amenities in this egalitarian…