It is the be-twixted and between hour of the morning. I rolled over to see the red numbers on the alarm clock flash 4:04 a.m. ...

The twisted tree lives its life, while the straight tree ends up in boards. Chinese Proverb Or, my 2024 version: The twisted tree lives its ...

Lorraine would have been in her early 50s when she became the pivot point to the rest of my life. I was the minister’s daughter ...

  Sister Mary sat across from me at our booth in the Little Fiesta Mexican Restaurant on a recent late November afternoon. We first met ...

My plane left me behind. I am tired. My boarding pass is not downloading. Not even Delta can access it. I would like to find ...

Changes. A month ago, it was still light out at this hour. Today, I have to wait for sunrise to take my morning walk. There ...

Ella pulled up her kayak next to mine and we overlapped our paddles to float back eastward on the afternoon waves together. It was her ...

It’s 5:00 am.  I don’t know why, maybe the light, but all summer this is the time I wake up. I’m snuggled under a quilt ...

The kayaks were laid out along the bank by the short dock in front of the boathouse. There were two orange, open faced kayaks for ...