I haven’t seen Kim, my friend and manager of the coffeehouse, since before Thanksgiving, so I mentally prepare myself before getting out of the car: she is now eight months pregnant and her [...]
Mia comes early and is a Godsend. She helps hang white lights and assures me that even though the chairs are old mountain rockers, they will suffice. We decide strategic locations for the wine [...]
The school I used to teach at is a boarding school for teens with family style houses and a Montessori-like educational philosophy. Tonight, I steered my car along the bumpy gravel road up to one [...]
Continued from yesterday… We both smiled and chuckled a little and I could tell she was not intending to be critical. “Look,” she said, “I raised a daughter on my own and we’re so enmeshed it’s [...]
After three weeks of waiting, this morning was my thirty-minute herbology consultation with Cissy, one of the most respected Chinese medicine specialists in the region. I discovered her by way of [...]
The air temperature is so balmy it’s a sin. Imagine wearing sandals in the absence of socks mid-January on the slopes of the highest mountains east of the Rockies. I could be wrong but I believe [...]
It only takes about thirty minutes of talking with Mia and I slip into a Southern accent that is neither my birthright or authentic. We are taking the afternoon to go to a Buddhist class together [...]
Everything about today has appealed to the senses. I woke to a rosy pink sunset across the face of the Black Mountains. In the loft of the big house, the bed faces this ancient range and I left [...]
I have been over pouring my tea all week. This is what happens when I get lustful and a man gets under my skin. I’ve walked into branches more than once – branches, mind you, that I previously [...]
The Peak of the Week on WNCW this evening was Fiona Apple’s “Extraordinary Machine,” so the album was played in its entirety on the air tonight. Born in 1977, Apple dropped out of high school at [...]
