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  Relocation has been the leitmotif of my life. And not just in the physical sense of moving to a new town though that was a constant until I was …

Would you do it again was the question. Really it is miraculous that I agreed the first time. Cataloging the reasons not to volunteer any day on anything are endless. …

“It’s all going to hell in a hand basket.” There’s that jaw dropping statement once used exclusively by elder peoples. This descriptor appears to be spreading, infiltrating the young and even …

    As a wee bit of a person, I considered being old as something mysterious and beloved. My parents were helpful in ushering me into life like that; we …

Once I gave the eulogy for a man I barely knew. For many years I traded with him on the court house steps where he offered fresh eggs by dint …

We peer into a giant pot hole on the road. It is murky with layered colors of decaying nature and shreds of environmental shambles like tainted oil and concrete chunks. …

“What say?” I said. “A whistle pig,” said Dalton, “I believe that is what we have here.” Ah yes, the whistle pig, related to the bull mouse of yore. My …

For heaven’s sake, it’s those things a mother insists upon that can make a life. “I made shorts with an elastic waistband in a six weeks sewing class while in …

  A new but persistent pain in my hip woke me with a start. I believe the sensation to be rheumatiz a word we used as children when we ambled …

  If I was a character in a dystopian novel, I would pack my spade and run down Highway 7 to Leipers Creek Road. The protagonist lives there and she …