ON THE VERGE

The neighborhood boys were riding bikes down the street, and I was in the yard picking up sticks. The other day we had a windstorm. Seventy ...

I read a book called The Correspondent, which is about an old crochety lady who writes a lot of letters. The book is told through the letter...

Spring forward and half the day is over, and meanwhile, I am still slumming it in my pajamas. The dog hasn’t gone out for her morning pee ye...

The dog had an injection, and like a miracle, she’s her old herself again. Wagging her tail, sniffing happily on walks, bounding around the ...

The only reason I did it was for the shampoo.  I have a confession to make about this shampoo. It's expensive. I mean, it's embarras...

In the middle of the night the dog toppled off the bed. Her body thunked on the floor, and I sprang out of bed and tried to pick her up. It’...

The news is a firehose, and I was drowning in it. I tried to turn it off, but it kept gushing at me. I paced around the house like the dog. ...