• An Olde Memorie

    I was riding my bicycle to choir practice this morning, and suddenly I smelled something (what?  I do not know) that sucked me through a vortex of a decade and spat me out…

  • One Sentence Story – The Vigil

    In body I attend class, kiss my children, type notes into my computer, prepare for the end of term, but in spirit I am sitting vigil with the already-grieving mother in the ICU,…

  • A Tale of Two Cities

    I once caused a kerfuffle at my old job in Roxboro, North Carolina by getting permission to make a company picnic BYOB.  One of my employees (a manager) pulled me aside and said…

  • Another Moment

    In the midst of end-of-term chaos, these beautiful moments keep  ambushing me. Last night the Professor saddled up the pup for his evening walkies, and I decided to corral our increasingly active boys…

  • A Moment

    Last week, while the husband and baby were out of town, Jack and I went to a friend’s house for a cookout.  At the cookout, the host had a dozen oysters on the…