(Note: this follows what you read last time.) Sleet started to fall, crisping the ends of my hair. I got into the rental and drove back to my dad’s house, where my Uncle Wade was waiting on the porch with…

I think my great character fault – well, one of them, anyway – was that I had no dream. I mean I had no hell-bent, clearly-focused vision of what I wanted to do, what I wanted to become. Ambitions and…

We don’t seem to like one another very much anymore in America. Not like we did before COVID, and not like we did before Trump. You’d think that the awful losses we shared during the virus and the shutdown would…

Take what’s still given? I do take it; I take whatever is offered. I blank on the rest, push it aside. Yet, as I sit on this airplane and watched young parents with babies and children, I can’t help but…

We are all limited by what we think we deserve .....and when it comes to the knowledge of our futures, we are all limited by what we don't even know we don't know..... what we don't know we don't know…

Life can be cute sometimes, but mostly it is not.

Is she a friend? Can I call Danielle a friend? Well, I will. Danielle is married to my stepson Paul, the youngest son of my deceased husband. That does not make him young. None of us is young. In any…

Boo’s Way Dogs will eat anything. Anything. One dog of ours successfully ate and digested most of a white stripes cd when he was a pup. Another actually ate the front cover of my son’s Spanish Book but I told…

In this season of spirit and shortened days of quiet and unruly uncertaintude the tidings and tides of the world (which way sway, which way aft) there resides, rides collides, the question of what is given and what is left…

When I taught high school I would have my students journal every morning for 10 minutes on a prompt. That’s an example of what teachers call a ‘sponge’ activity. It allows for latecomers to catch up and for everyone else…

(Here is more from this character) I put the phone back in the pocket of my dad’s barn jacket, and crossed the street to the rental car, which was costing me so much per day, I might as well be…

Oh, I’m asking all right. In an hour and a half I’ll ask the doctor (the PA whom l. has no confidence in—in fact the mention of such a person makes her angry). I’m asking for a relief from this…