As I set up my folding chair and arrange my towel to get ready for a cherished swim at the Green River swimming pool, I watch the caravans arrive...
I have just finished the 17th postcard out of 50 I agreed to write to support Alex Morse’s campaign for congress in MA-01. I can only write a few...
It’s stupid to love a cat, right? I ask because I am cat heartsick. And this is no time to be cat heartsick. No time to mourn a 10-pound rascally...
The other day while on a walk, I was passed by a runner. “Hi, Ruth,” the runner called. She was well past me before the voice and the figure...
We sit in plastic chairs six feet apart around a fire pit. Daniel doesn’t sit. He’s too busy adding twigs and branches to the fire. The smoke is...
“I’m afraid.” The teacher, like her student, talks from her screen. Leah, a 10-year-old, had prepared four questions. Four questions she chose to...
Imagine, if you will, that you have to have a medical procedure. Imagine too, that prior to this procedure you are required to remove all your...
Some number of years ago, a friend wrote, “I used to go to weddings, now I go to funerals.” It seemed an apt description of our lives. A time that...
It’s time to decide this year’s winner of the Non Compos Mentis Award. You know, that family tradition that I’ve written about before. It’s an...
There was an unexpected noise. The noise happened just as the evening news was about to come on, so we ignored it. But then came another commotion,...
The boy lines up his tools. Each one, worn and polished smooth from the wear of other’s hands. He is learning their names. He likes that each has a...
“I am not what I expected.” Anne Sexton When I was younger I expected to travel. I would be one who loved the road, but truthfully, I get carsick...