He was tall and thin. His hair was quite long and worn in a single braid. His face was grizzled with a scraggly beard. I…

He told me he was 42. I was 37. Of course that was a good fit. We were sitting at a bar after a “Singles…

There’s a certain type of person who receives a warped idea of what truth is from their early childhood on. Obviously,tragically, Donald Trump is that…

I love cats. I've had cat companions since I was a very little girl. I've had many other pets as well - dogs, birds, turtles,…

The day after my mother's funeral Daddy quietly moved himself out of the Master bedroom and into the guestroom. He never slept in that Master…

Once we couldn’t find each other. I wrote a story then about it: Stan and I at St. Peter’s in Rome and his wandering off…

I’ll just go ahead and admit that this prompt response is indeed a response -a rant, if you will- to my fear that I may…

Well, ah, what I learned from him was how to grow potatoes. Or shall I say he gave me the inspiration to grow potatoes. We…

“You know what I told him, Jackie?” My mother was an unimaginative woman. She also was tentative, even frightened, I think, most of her life.…

Every wound is now registered. You line up with the others and wait to reach the check out kiosk. You show your wound, if necessary…

In 2015 my late husband and I moved from San Francisco up to Santa Rosa. William was in treatment for cancer, and he decided that…

Here I am, thousands of feet up in the vast blue sky and there is just enough wind turbulence to turn me into a cringing…