ON THE VERGE

The cardinal has shown up again on the back porch. I find him early mornings in cold weather, and it always startles me. The black, unblin...

the little girl asks me. She's a regular at the library where I work, but that branch is closed for renovations, and now I'm at the ...

I am a teacher, and we are learning, in the elementary school where I work, about lockdowns. Say, a gunman enters the school. What do we do?...

Last night I didn’t want to look at the election results. I put my phone away. I was thinking, this is the Schrödinger's cat point of th...

The library where I work is closing next week for renovations. The renovations were going to take six weeks, and then they were going to tak...

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, ...