Shadows & Light

Dave is planning to cook up a storm today for our Easter dinner. He had an elaborate menu planned featuring squid, scallops and some other ...

Spring is winding down already for the magnolias, most of which have shed their blossoms. I noticed the other day that the petals perfectly...

We're getting our first overnight visitors today, our friends Marilyn and Jason from New Jersey. They cared for Ernie and Ruby for thre...

I read an article in a recent issue of The New Yorker in which the writer described his scars and their sources, with the overall idea tha...

When we had our recent dinner party with Liz, Sally and their families, we wound up in a conversation about the worst Star Trek episodes o...

Last night we went to dinner with one of Dave's coworkers, Lorraine. She had just come from a weekend retreat led by Buddhist monk and ...

This was the scene in Kensington Gardens on Friday afternoon, when I took my book and a thermos of coffee to the park and sat beneath a tre...