ON THE VERGE

At the Halloween party we are all masked and wearing black. When my friend and I walk through the door, the hosts greet us and tape a name o...

The pre-school kids on their class visit to the library are cute. They file down the stairs with their fingers against their lips. Shh shh, ...

My daughter is visiting for the weekend, and we browse the shops in my neighborhood. The place where she likes to get custard. The thrift st...

I have one goal today. Move the peony plant that’s slowly being strangled by the raspberry bush in the corner of the backyard. Peonies, if y...

There was a story in the newspaper this morning that made me cry. A group of friends in the 1970’s gathering together to eat a fancy breakf...

It’s fall, but the summer keeps going.  Ninety-five-degree day after 95-degree day, the garden barely holding on, browning, burning. I’m wor...

Every morning my job is to make the coffee. Here’s how to make the coffee: push the ON button. The trick is it takes an hour for the water t...