“It was amazing how you could get so far from where you’d planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.” (Sarah Dessen,
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Limoncello Lessons…Please!
Okay, foodies and mixology mavens. I need your help. I made my first ever batch of limoncello and it looks like this: In case it isn’t obvious
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Monday Letters
It’s five o’clock on Monday morning and my mother sits in bed, knees up, a pad against her thighs, her second cup of coffee steaming within
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About A Boy
Today, April 20, is about Easter. It is also about a boy. The boy in this picture came into my life on April 20, 1975. He
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Twenty Nine
When I saw the prompt for an essay contest a while back, I couldn’t get it out of my mind. The prompt was this: write about
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The Gift of Found Time
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” ― Annie Dillard A little over eight years ago my father’s heart stopped.
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Intervention
I don’t know what kind of bird this is, I don’t know its sex. All I know is that for five days it occupied my backyard,
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Strangers in a Strange Land
Michael Valentine Smith may have prevented a murder back in the summer of 1974 when my brother and I were stranded in Port Angeles, Washington for
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Fences, Fear, and Friendship Park
I live about 25 miles from the border crossing between California and Mexico and except for a ride to Rosarito Beach back in the eighties, I’ve
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Re-entry
You know that half groan, half-shriek the gears make when you thought you were shifting your car into second and you hit reverse instead? Or, forgot
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