For two weeks we’ve walked this mountain trail, the dog and I, through trees and over rocks to see the view, the morning sun, the vista...

Tree swallows have occupied the bluebird house I hung, over there, in the garden, by the flower bed. Take a look for yourself neighbor,...

The men in front of the drug store cease their banter, follow her approach with their eyes. Focus on her breasts, their heave with each...

The beach at Alligator Point wind swept and empty, tide out. No birds, sea shells or dunes since the last hurricane carried them away. It...

Unable to resist wilted, discarded, dying plants my mother picks them from garbage piles carries them home to nurse back to health. Our...

Can one, unsuspecting, lift a flap, step into a tent, find oneself perhaps transported. Flashing lights of the Ferris wheel, shriek of...

Preoccupied with plants and weeds I ignore the darkening sky, distant rumble of thunder that heralds all tropical rainstorms in humid...

After Cousin Martha died, it fell to me to go through her home of more than fifty years. The only very sketchy instructions she had left,...

Kirby came to live with the Bealles when he was three years old. Before that he had lived on the streets – sleeping where he could and...

Here I am, 75 years old, knee in a brace, face in a frown and the checkout clerk at the grocery store, about 60 years my junior, says,...

“I eat dinner at the kitchen table leftovers with mashed potatoes” - Kate McGarrigile When you're away I stay up late Iron shirts, clean...

It’s evening on a summer night a small girl and her granddad on the porch share the breeze and waning light. He sits and rocks and reads...

In the Grill Room of the Hotel Taft Vincent Lopez and his band play “Shake the Maracas” and tea dances so girls in pearls and peter pan...