For me, it began the summer I turned 11, and ended sixty-one years later when, going on 73, I woke up disgusted with myself and wrote in my journal: "Please help me, I am going straight to Hell." The … [Read more...]

Today is December 14, 2017 The hill is a sheet of ice and it's too cold to go out if you don't have to. Yesterday I was struck by a provocative essay in Literary Hub by Emma C. Eisenberg. It was … [Read more...]

Today is December 10, 2017. But what of Zeb, brother of Waldo, son of Gerry and Chicklet? Gerry and Chicklet, parents of Zeb and Waldo. Above their picture, the breeder had written, "She has … [Read more...]

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...]