ON THE VERGE

Because of our half-cross-country move, I don’t have a garden this year. It’s making my hands itch, that urge to plant something. Or kill so...

The lake is glittering somewhere behind the trees. We can see glimpses of it from our porch and it’s lovely, but could we make a better view...

The day the movers came the sky was orange haze. I didn’t know it was smoke. I’ve been off the news. I’m in a wildly different part of the c...

We moved into a new house. The house is 575 miles away from our old house. It is different in at least 575 ways. Instead of being in a city ...

In the morning I tromp down to the community garden before the worst of the heat hits. Not even 8AM, and it’s already like an oven out here....

Everything has a fence around it. The Reflecting Pool, the White House. We’re in DC and it’s a million degrees, but my husband and I want to...

We went to the movies in the middle of the afternoon. We ate popcorn for lunch and peanut M&M’s. The movie was about aliens and how they...