Growing old is so many things that sometimes it feels like it is everything and nothing, like air, like time. I have aches in all my joints, some of which I don’t think have a legitimate purpose in a human…

She never asked to be an assassin. Never asked to be given a life of eternal hiding and forever-lasting disappearing. It was just what was expected of the children in her family: to follow in the footsteps, to keep the…

Nights like This Agatha’s father’s death scarred her. Those years that she and her mother were alone were devastating to her. Her mother, a widow, trying to run a shipping business; Agatha, left with whoever could care for her; The…

"Keep dancing. Keep dreaming. Keep the music alive." - Phil Lesh Phil Lesh, a long-time original member of the Grateful Dead, passed away in late October last year. I posted the song "Truckin'" that I played on ukulele just a…

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Her father's death scarred Agatha. Those years that her and her mother were alone devastated her. Her mother, trying to run the shipping business by herself. Agatha, left with whoever could care for her. She was so confused about what…

Since I lost my precious Guinness the Cat on December 17, 2024, my beautiful 19-year-old furry black cat with white on his chest and chin, my big boy who was my soul mate, muse, and best friend, I have not…

The party was at the home of one of Ryan’s teachers, his Senior Seminar English teacher – the place where you were helped to explore boundaries both literary and expressive and, I guess, behavioral. I was a pretty cynical adolescent.…

This would be one of Nemi's favorite assignments ever , and she enjoyed knowing that this clean-up job would help the world in enormous and meaningful ways. Nemesis Rassov’s life felt like a dream: a dream of dancing bullets, and…