It started unexpectedly on, of all days, a Thanksgiving. Bird, potatoes, and gravy enough for a family, but today just for two. But today, in…

It's a feeling I know well. It is an almost out of body experience. I look down upon myself. I am laughing, tossing my hair,…

The hardest moments are at the end of the party. The early exits, feeling premature, begin a depletion like the slow leak from a tire…

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…