Mothers
As I drove south on 29 to visit my mother last weekend, I thought about Vivian Gornick’s Fierce Attachments, a …
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Momentary Visitors
It was another coffee-scented morning. I was sitting in my reclining chair and reading when I heard my cell phone …
Dog Days, Cicadas and Rejection Letters
Early last Saturday afternoon, as I walked back up the mountain road from the mailbox, I heard the first rattle …
Snakes
Last week while weeding Japanese stilt grass out of a bank of groundcover, I reached for a clump of grass …
Notes from Vanaprastha 