Sorata, Real Love, and Bye for Now

E.B. White, a great American essayist, in the book “Letters of E.B. White,” explained that non-fiction is truthful writing which includes the letter, the list, biography, memoir, news reports, and obituaries. But when the writer does not simply write the facts about what happened but also him or herself in relation to what happened, then …

Come Upon and Overtaken

Langano, Ethiopia Sunday,  March 29, 2009,  7 a.m.  I am sitting down by the lake. It's an overcast day. A big bird floated by. I love the curves of his wings, especially the tips. The detail of his wingtips, like a little fan, I am captured, it's so pretty, as are the faint and varied birdsongs in …

Chapman Road

There is a road near where I live named Chapman Road. It winds up and around a mountain slope and dead ends in the forest.  There are three old summer houses at the end, connected with each other by wooden stairs and decks. Through the years living in this little town, in the quiet wintertime …

A New Season

I want to remember that afternoon so here is the story.  I love my job as nannygranny for not-so-Little Pookie and her little brother, the GrandBoy, but it is not always easy. The rivalry between them can be explosive and intense and sometimes their very healthy, normal kid-ness challenges all my virtues and makes me …