Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

The End of the World My father used to say this all the time.  As a joke. He had seen the world end once before with his own eyes.  He...

Self-Quarantined That’s me.   I’m self-quarantined.   I was pretty much there already given the health problems I’ve had during th...

My mother couldn’t walk for the last five years of her life. She had terrible arthritis in her back, and she couldn’t stand up straight ...

Stuff Gets Lost In his book about kayaking around the South Pacific, travel writer Paul Theroux offers at one point a list of what’s been ...

Friday poem: My mother grew up in a forest in Eastern Poland.  She could hear wolves howling in the winter, and she listened to her mother...

No WiFi! It was one of those things.  My WiFi was working perfectly.  I was watching a YouTube on my TV of a yoga instructor named Adrienn...

Stop the Presses! True Confessions for some reason is selling for less than half price on Amazon.  That’s $5.33 a copy with free shipping!...