ON THE VERGE

Last week I made a list of rules for myself and then I broke them. I don’t think I even made it a day. Who am I kidding. I didn’t make it an...

Working the information desk at the library and a patron asks if there are any reading glasses in the Lost and Found. Let me check, I say, a...

I've been watching the TV show  The Bear.  It’s very good. If you don't know it, it's about an acclaimed master chef named Carmy...

The bear was a black bear and it was dead. Probably hit by a car. The body rolled a little way off the road and down into the woods. My frie...

and the new year is so new it hasn’t even started yet.  A friend says instead of making resolutions, we should choose a word for the year an...

and for the moment, I am the only one awake. Six people, three dogs. Three kinds of coffee to be made. Food for the vegans and the carnivore...

with unwrapped presents piled on the dining room table, a stack of lovely Christmas cards from family and friends strewn all over the counte...