One of my friends was confused when at her annual physical she heard the doctor ask if she was “a backhoe user”. What she was actually asked was if she was “a tobacco user”....

  Just over a month ago I was greeted by this cat meowing loudly at our back door. I opened it to get a better look and he muscled his way into the kitchen,...

The first thing I did after getting my second Covid-19 vaccine was to schedule some dental work I’d been delaying. The second was to make a trip to Costco. I’ve been using curbside pickup...

My husband’s mother treasured a large marble bust a friend had brought her from Paris in the 1950’s. “Poesie” was white, delicately featured and wore a leafy garland around her head. She was what...

  I wrote this a year and a half ago after a trip through central Oregon and, after submitting it to a place that has published some other stuff of mine, was told this...

I was looking through a box of old photos and found a studio shot of my husband’s cousin, her yearbook picture from high school or college. I immediately texted her to say I had...

I’m taking a new online Spanish class taught by a man who owns a language school in another city. Ordinarily he teaches in person and because of Covid, he cannot. I’ve been learning Spanish...

  I was going through a box of old stuff, and there she was. Again. An angel, hand-fashioned of clay and baked hard, her skirt a smooth bell, with the ringer attached by an...

As a kid, I talked to myself a lot. I still do. I also talk to trees and other plants, I lecture spiders who have the audacity to turn up uninvited in the bathtub,...

Luna’s in love. She likes everyone, but is completely head over heels for our UPS driver. Adam is a lovely person and he does bring her a dog biscuit when he stops, but her...