This morning, as I headed somewhere, car keys in one hand, iPod in the other, I found myself yanked momentarily away … More
Category: In the Garden
Pubs, Sultry Summer Edition
The Summer 2013 issue of The Massachusetts Review, which includes my story “Plenty” is out and on the metaphorical stands. … More
The Dance
At the gym, the soundtrack of my younger days is spilling so loudly from the speakers it erases thought, and … More
Weather Report: May 24, 2010
The end of May. The sinister, slightly noirish fragrance, of jasmine, of gardenia — those funereal white flowers that always … More
Weather Report: March 23, 2010
Snow flurries 48 hours ago but winter’s at last behind us: when I drove the Girleens to school soon after … More
Weather Report, November 30, 2009
The tailings of November, when the sky takes on the character of dingy cotton batting and the air smells of … More
Happiness by the Handful
My world still can’t make up its mind. On one hand, the dogwoods have already turned that dull crimson that … More
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
Because it seems untidy to leave narrative threads dangling (though I suppose that’s what life is full of, dangling narrative … More