ON THE VERGE

A million years ago we were on a sixteen-hour car trip and our son was playing the video game Oregon Trail in the backseat on an old laptop...

Friday, March 13, 2020 Today the library will close, just a precaution for the next three weeks. My afternoon shift is like the panic sho...

The parking lot was full, and a woman walking out to her car with a cart told me I might want to take hers. There are no empty carts inside,...

It was a weird sunny warm day and I was walking up and down the street ringing doorbells and carrying my clipboard. Canvassing has gotten mo...

starts first in a quiet house, just me and my laptop, a cup of coffee, the dog snoozing beside me, the scene rolling out in front of me ...

She starts crying and shaking the minute I get her into the car. She knows what’s coming. Or she thinks she does. The entire fifteen minut...

I walk my dog in a loop around my neighborhood, pass the flowers coming up, the houses still decorated with Christmas tree lights. One day ...