If You're Going My Way, I'll Walk With You

T he other day I bad-mouthed my stateside magnet high school and, thinking about it, one reason I was not fond of it was that it didn'...

The Cheat River in Preston County in the Allegheny Highlands. I g ot an invitation to join a gathering of descendants of William Hebb.  I...

A lot has happened to me in the last 17 years, but I'm still me and in the deep core of me I still think and feel and believe just as I ...

  "All we know is that life is sweet and that it does not last long. Why should people be envious of each other? Why do we hate each ...

  I was thinking about bad marriages, reminding myself how lucky I am to be in a good one and not to screw it up, when I remembered a woman...

"Nothing has concerned man longer or more consistently than the future. Before we could write, perhaps even before we could talk, we sc...

 Confederates by Neal Bowers My father was only two in 1915 when he sat on Walter Denton's lap and heard the old man dragging in his hea...

  S o, outside of Japan, where did I spend a lot of my childhood?  Where did I enjoy my life the most? Guam!  I'm still a Guambat at hea...

  I Meet My Grandmother in Italy by Katrina Vandenberg I find her where I least expect her, Santa Marguerita, with yellow roses in her hair....

I'm in trouble now! R eading through blog and substack posts, twitter feeds and all that, I realize that not only do I have nothing in c...

  The Continuous Life by Mark Strand What of the neighborhood homes awash In a silver light, of children hunched in the bushes, Watching the...

E veryone needs a ghost.  No matter how busy our lives, how interesting our pleasures, there are depths of loneliness  that neither work nor...

“I n every woman, I came to realize, there is a desire to be naked, a desire to be seen naked.”  ― Chloe Thurlow   “I think on-stag...

  "Do you want to live?  Or do you want to die? "I've forgotten it, just to live. I may look all right to you, but that's ...

               

 I'm not looking forward to this.  My mini-me is going to be the same pain in the butt to me that I was to my mother. But my mother stee...

by Sonia Gernes This birthday I have reached the age where my mother bore the last of her dead daughters— one that was whisked away before i...

  I 've had three careers in my life and learned a lot of things that I don't even remotely need to know about anymore.  I sweated ...