Heading Home
Given a choice, my mother preferred not to travel. She enjoyed being in new places, visiting family members and taking in the occasional entertainment, but she despised the process of getting from...
View ArticleShedding Daylight
Gary Myers is an artist whose work I admire and whose blog I’ve followed for several years. He lives just north of Elmira, New York, in the memorably-named town of Horseheads. His paintings,...
View ArticleThe Raising Up of Dale T
No one seemed to know how Dirty Dale got his name, and Dale wasn’t telling. Gladys, who came in off the rigs to put her cooking talents to work in the cafe she purchased after years in the oil patch,...
View ArticleSleepers, Awake
As a child, I never slept through a story by Hans Christian Andersen. Whether the tale was light and playful (“The Princess and the Pea”) or darker, more complex, and just a little disturbing (“The...
View ArticleAfter The Storm
What would you say to grief-torn birds, anguished by life’s broken bonds? Could you turn away, unmoved, dismiss their cries as habit, a bit of empty noise? I saw it once, there on the spring grass– not...
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