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,…

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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…

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…

Lately I feel like I'm living in exile. Since my fall I've been laid up in the bedroom, propped up on the bed, a heavy…

Marla showed up to work the day after learning about the cancer. She'd told only Jenn, not her mother and definitely not her father. She'd…

Twilight falls, yet before the next dawning, As a decent night’s sleep they do mock, Writers pause, knowing soon they must welcome the moon, And…

Today in the woods, I saw spittlebugs on the branches of plants—small pieces of spit. Even after the gang left, I stayed in the yard…