On Being Simply True

  It happened. I’ve been waiting patiently for nearly five years. But it finally happened. Maya wagged her tail at me. Yes, of course, she...

  I come from a long line of strong, independent, defiant, flawed women. I see myself in all of them, all the way back to my great-grandmoth...

  Wear sunscreen. Wear. sunscreen. In 1993, I found a mole on my leg that looked scary. When my doc saw it, he said, “That’s coming off ...

The "round toes" of my "high shoes" Old friends... sat on their park bench like bookends A newspaper blown through the g...

  We live in a magical time of consumerism, don’t we? I mean, make a wish—“I’d really like a pair of flannel pajama pants with dogs on them”...

Tom Clift on bass. Photo courtesy of Steven Young Photography This is a cautionary tale. It is a story of love, and trust, and friendship, a...

  This is what I know: Sometimes it’s not the huge problems that get us down, it’s the accumulation of many successive small ones. Also wh...