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Below me I can hear the noise of the carpenters banging away as they finish sheet-rocking my basement. From my window I can hear birdsong and the river lapping at ...

This has been a month of sadness for me. My best friend has moved to a new home several states away. Though I know we will continue to talk on ...

Just about four years ago, I picked up nearly thirty years’ worth of California experience and made my way back to the coast on which I was born. The West ...

It’s not time for summer reading yet, but it is time for a spring fling into new books—some published a while ago, some published recently. I am making recommendations of ...

How obvious to observe that the writer’s life is solitary. I am at my desk by nine, but at five set my pen aside and shut down the computer—this is ...

Last week Dr. Seuss would have turned one hundred and seventeen years old. He was my childhood companion, warm and humorous, one of the many who helped me learn to ...

Whenever Breeze and Brad and I take a walk, strangers who pass us on the sidewalk ask how old our “puppy” is. As the years go by, we smile, happy ...

The year has turned since I wrote last and my important news is that next week I will be able, hopefully, to get a COVID vaccine. At sixty-seven years old, ...