After I returned to the house with the box, I called Carl. Carl has been our caretaker for thirty years, starting when he was seventeen and mixing concrete for the stonemason building our chimney. Now … [Read more...]

Today is Saturday, December 9, 2017 The committee chairman was not pleased. A committee member had just phoned to say she was not coming because her dog had died yesterday and she was grieving. "She … [Read more...]

Today is December 8, 2017 If you look closely at this picture, you will see a cat sticking his profile in front of a drawing. I. It was early October 2017. My brother and sister in law were … [Read more...]

Today is September 25, 2017. In early September I had just about finished an essay/blog, but then the hurricanes came and my subject matter was the kind that could wait. My younger brother Rebel and … [Read more...]

I had been planning to write a blog about my drawing, its healing powers, how it exploded into my daily schedule on November 9, 2016, and hasn’t let up since. How it began at age six, when my mother … [Read more...]

A Dog As it was told, my grandfather brought home a puppy. My grandmother said, “We can’t have a dog, you’ll have to take it back in the morning. The next morning Poppy said, “Well, I guess I will … [Read more...]

Friday, August 18, 2017 Avatars Occasionally a fictional character I am bringing into being will pass on valuable information to me or show me how to do something I never thought of trying. … [Read more...]

“The Autobiographical Memory” Yesterday I read something that was totally new to me and set my mind on fire. Here is the gist of it: It took two million years of human development, beginning with homo … [Read more...]

Old nun on a walk The old nun and I set off for a walk to the top of the hill to catch the early winter sunset. We had been friends since she was my eighth grade teacher. She was eighty-three that … [Read more...]

Blog #10 Being a Writer  Continuing Orwell's Four Great Motives for Writing. (Motives 3 and 4: Historical Impulse and Political Purpose) Today is May 26, 2017, and in the past week two things on … [Read more...]