Respite
My garden. All weekend at the end of a week of exams, papers, labs, extracurriculars. Parent teacher conferences. My garden, in a community garden, a plot of earth, mine for […]
My garden. All weekend at the end of a week of exams, papers, labs, extracurriculars. Parent teacher conferences. My garden, in a community garden, a plot of earth, mine for […]
The names have been changed. There are no names. There are no innocents. It was ten o’clock in the morning on a misty day in early October. There was a […]
A year ago, a then new friend told me, as we began to know each other, that more than anything, I seemed very far from home. It was true. I […]
I both do and do not want to write this post. Characters will meander through this space, and I feel you should be acquainted with some of them. Some will […]
I am not a writer. I woke up to a full ashtray on the nightstand and the dogs pouncing on me to go out. Writing takes discipline. There are dishes […]
In Northern California, in the gold country, in a small and charming town called Nevada City, you and I stopped into a bookstore. Many years ago. You would leave from […]
Gray light streamed from the oversized loft windows, very thin light, everything gray scale in the early, early, far before dawn morning. You took convincing to join me in this […]