Guinness the cat and I have both calmed down. For now. When I woke up yesterday morning, I itched all over I could even feel…

We talked yesterday. First time since last summer, when I told him to stop calling because I needed space. I listened to him prattle on…

That’s just it: I don’t see my punishment. I have suffered, true, but I don’t see “suffering” as equivalent to “punishment.” It’s truly an unfair…

I was raised in one of the last ‘go out and play’ generations. Our mothers not only ‘let us’ go out and play when our…

Hats are a great topic for me. In my world, things exist metaphorically as psychological factors as much as they exist literally in the world.…

Our little television in the living room, black and white and smaller than the average purse, caught me from its very first entrance into our…

I walked out of the bar/restaurant and out into the crazy Times Square mob. So many people that you couldn't stand still and the crowd…

“I see my punishment. It’s to live knowing I have two dead brothers who died right over there.” Thomas is standing on the one-lane bridge…

“[This] made me what I am today, who I am today.” Oh Boy. I taught high school English for many years (like close to 40).…

It is snowing here for the first time in two or three years; the ground air and earth are above freezing, so its not going…

The first thing that comes to mind with "lived on love" is my cycling buddy Martha telling me, "I'll never forget the expression on your…

When I walked into the restaurant, I had no firm expectations. A colleague, or almost a colleague, Marc, a young man I had chatted with…