ArchiveJune 2024

What Are You Waiting For?

I love books, but I’m weird about reading them. Not all books, but books by my favorite authors. I have to pace myself for fear of running out of their work. Larry McMurtry is the perfect example of this. He has been my favorite writer for more than...

Brilliant White Flower

I have a friend that is bearing something heavy, and silent. It is the kind of thing she smiles through with her mouth, but that never quite leaves her face.   We appeared at each other’s doorsteps in the 80’s as gap-toothed children, and then...

Sugar and Spice

I knew from pretty early on that I hoped to raise any children I had in a fairly free nature. Having been raised under the tight thumb of strict parents, I grew to see some wiggle room as a form of character development. After all, all my parents’...

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