Hang around this life long enough and you learn how to make do. A bottle of wine can be uncorked with a screwdriver if need be. Messy...

Can you imagine sustaining your life sip by sip? A nibble here, there a small lick, perhaps a grain or two. Always on the knife edge of...

When I die, I hope for a short time of perfect clarity, to finally get answers to questions both big and small.   What is the universe...

It was the most solemn of promises, extracted from me when speech was difficult at best. With fervor and a kind of burning, he made  me...

What I was has made me what I is -- has set me here on the brink of what might be. Stepping forward while looking back -- teetering --...

There was one day when you simply wanted to “go.” Your body would not allow it, nor would the wider world. With effort we booked passage...

It pays to remember that we are all still animals. We may not have the same words, but the feelings that words were invented to capture...

It can be the tiniest grain wedged in your shoe, bringing the whole of your being to a standstill      bending to untie the laces and dig...

What if you found yourself traveling? Carrying a small bag packed with things you think you’ll need. You close the door on your home and...

I was driving into the Center just days after my mom had died. totally distracted thinking of my mother gone so quietly in the night...

First there was nothing.   Actually, that’s a lie.   First there was attraction, then an explosion of life and then it was quiet for a...

A sourdough loaf still warm from the oven is worth its weight in tomatoes. A jar of garnet colored cordial nets a sack of scarlet...

It is the smallest things that find their way into the wellspring of my heart. The microscopic spider hardly bigger than a comma who...

The invitation went out: Bring a chair. Food to share. Booze of your choice. Headlamp. Bug spray. We gathered at a neighbor’s farm at the...

There will come a day when I will empty my pockets, pile the treasures that I carry on the table next to my bed, or perhaps in the basket...

I tried to be on time today, I really did! Rushing out to meet a friend who is highly organized (10:30 actually means 10:15). I left my...

What a wonderful thing to be late for a concert in a small town. Too embarrassed to walk in and have all your neighbors stare, you creep...

They were wild with glee, as only a dad and his young daughter could be. The clamor they made was almost indecent in this quiet place....

Unloading jugs of water to tend my parents’ garden GoooOOOD MORNing! It’s a BEEooOOootiful day in Canterbury! (If there was a shade out...

It was the flash of pale blue shirt that caught my eye back and forth and back from shed to house past the kitchen window... then a spark...