On a hot summer day in Texas, my fifteen-year-old head buried in a book, as usual, I sat draped over the arms of one of the living room...

Mexico **** Our next trip was to Mexico. Robert had traveled their many times through the years. We flew in over Mexico City after dark...

1959 Pets **** We always had pets. Mother brought a tiny Chihuahua one day, to the children’s delight. She knew I did not...

The final counselor was a psychiatrist who interviewed us separately and together, examined the tests he had given us and turned to me...

“What do I want to do now,” I asked. The job, still boring, was a very good job. I worked for fair, personable people. I worked at being...

We met redhead Betty, a former model, intelligent, up-beat Betty. For the next two years, the four of us met after work once a week at...

THE BLUE HEELER Early morning silence, Colorado summer morning. Into the Black Forest, The Blue Heeler at my knee. A wise being behind...

MY FATHER My father was a humble man With simple tastes and loves. I remember when he was handsome and strong, Full of fun, working long....

“OH!” I thought. “How long have we known one another? Almost a year already? Share? Like share the expenses? Rent out my condo? I don’t...

2014 **** One fall day in 2014 Dick and I decided on another three-day adventure in Taos, NM. We loved that area so much. We drove down...

Dick planned a trip to Sitka. I questioned, “Sitka, Alaska? What on earth is there of interest in Sitka, Alaska? That bustling, attractive city, when we visited in 2009, had multiple landscaped streets of new, modern buildings and jewelry and souvenir shops for the tourists interspersed with the many lovely old churches and government buildings from its storied past. It is a popular tourist destination and while we were there the monster, city size cruise ships would pull int

Alice and I drove down the rutted, rough dirt road that almost wasn’t one in her brand-new Nissan Altima. Falling down barbed wire fences...

As my children grew up we always had an outside dog and cats that presented us with litters out back in the big old barn way too often....

On a hot summer day in Texas, my fifteen-year-old head buried in a book, as usual, I sat draped over the arms of one of the living room...