ON THE VERGE

or the people who live behind me, although I do notice them sometimes, letting their dogs out, puttering around in their yards, someone'...

Weird, because when I click on the radar, a blue blob hovers over my house.  Outside my house, in reality, still, no snow. Someone's fal...

Another day, another mask-less patron at the library explaining to me why masks don't work. I'm sitting at the desk, nodding how I a...

Ten minutes before the library closes, I take a call. What time do you close tonight? The caller asks me.  Five o’clock.  A pause. Oh, she s...

but actual fog, a thick curtain of mist. Actually, it's more like a cloud. And there I go already, speaking in metaphors. The thing is w...

which puts you in just the right, festive mood. Only five of us this year celebrating, but that is one more than last year, so it feels like...

where the virus cases are exploding and the hospitals are at their breaking point and long gone are the days when we would say We're all...