As a volunteer disc jockey at our local community college, I am free to choose whatever songs or arrangements I desire to play from the...

Oh, hello there! It’s been a while. I wondered when you’d return. Hello, Loneliness. Hello, Fear. Hello, Disgust. Come in! Come in!...

My first exposure to the F-word was from my brother, Roy. I think I was fifteen, so that would have been 1965, and he would have been...

Show Me Beautiful   More years ago than I want to acknowledge, when I was 12, my oldest brother handed me a slim volume of poems. A...

March 2022 "Do I have to do everything around here?" I huffed to myself. I live solo in an eleven-hundred-square-foot condo. No lawn...

Some might say I’m a packrat. I prefer “magpie.” A creative magpie. For decades I have added to a stash of glittery costume jewelry;...

I have a rare gift.      Who else can create chaos in their home, where they alone abide, so effortlessly and thoroughly? The kind...

I have met the enemy. I originally hoped that this enemy might be a friend. I hoped the relationship would give me a little relaxation,...

On a Wednesday in March, I exposed myself to four preschool classrooms, a thrift shop, and a convenience store. This is how I think of...

Here I am a couple of weeks after my new 55" TV was installed. My son offered to put up the full motion wall mount, saving me...

Usually, I distract myself from melancholy. I’m afraid if I give it more than a cursory acknowledgement, I will fall into a pit of...

You, dear readers, may remember from my premier article that I do not subscribe to streaming services or otherwise watch TV. I do, by the...

"What are you doing tonight?" Linda asked late one November Saturday afternoon. "I'm going to organize the craft room," I said. "I've...