ON THE VERGE

It's cold outside but every day we walk the dogs.  Not a routine, my daughter tells me. A ritual . Doesn't that sound nicer? We are ...

This has been a strange year of reading, many of the books tied up with what was going on in the world--with the pandemic and marches for ra...

I was going to write about how hard it is to start a book in the middle of a pandemic. The work involved, the thought, the focus, when I am ...

My writer friend Shannon Hitchcock has a new book out and I'm so excited for her. I've been a fan of Shannon's work since I read...

1. the drumstick-less/one-winged turkey, ordered from the farmer's market and arriving from the processor looking like a frankenstein-ga...

the sky was gray going to black and I was listening to the end of the audiobook, We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates.  As alway...

was March and I went to work at the library. It was the day before the lockdown in our state.  Only for two weeks,  the governor said,  just...