Both my husband and I had endured tougher things than this move. We moved only a few houses away from ours – we lived at #121, moved to #113, which was owned by our friends. It was for just a…

Laughter is better at Night. Night is darkness, unknown, and the home to monsters, murderers, and other malevolent creatures we hope to never cross in our lives. It is even in our survival instincts as humans not to go out…

Is it the look of the word “laughter” that is so jolly? How could that be? The acrobatic letters of the swooping “g” following by the reaching “h” and the crisp “t” like a little cadence. It’s a happy-looking word.…

A cool night in a season that will come to be called Spring, but the hominids had not invented that word yet. So the night is dark and pleasantly chilled, as the entire tribe sits around the fire that shines…

There was a time when I was flying on one aircraft or another to some job or other, some family emergency or other, some event or other that required flight. I remember sitting in one economy seat thinking that the…

The women were not young, but young enough, and intrepid. Kay and Martha looked young to Jeanette, who was old, who was surprised to learn they’d both endured menopause—and, like good partners—endured it together. Their bed must have been heated…

is always what I'm after. A bed with clean, white sheets, an overbearing window looking out to the sea, a bag of multigrain rolls and dozens of pats of butter, and zero memory of another life. No sand on toddler…

To make love easy, you have to love back in a way that is not about yourself, that is about how deeply you care about the other person. In every moment, you must open your eyes, ears and heart to…

…….all she had to do was ignore her every instinct: The instinct that told her he was not a good man…..the chilly feeling he gave her skin whenever he touched her….the smooth way she had of accepting his every affront…

I don’t know many young people these days. Well, that’s an understatement; I don’t know any young people at all. It seems to me, though, where I left off with relatively young people, students in my college classrooms, that they…

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Patty felt her obligation was to take care of her parents, John and Masako, when they got into their 90s and couldn't take 100% care of themselves. As a retired nurse, she felt she was the best one to take…