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My Uncle’s house in Connecticut has central heat and flush toilets, two full showers, a dishwasher, a pool table, spare bedrooms, a weekly visit from a Maid, and a television bigger than a [...]

Betty has fallen and broken both her hips since I saw her last but is surprisingly strong and full of color. Now she uses a walker. Seeing the way she bounces up from the couch with ease, [...]

I awoke eager to see “the garden state” in daylight for the first time in years. It took twelve hours of continuous driving to arrive at cousin John’s door, and leave it to him [...]

The wooden double doors were heavy and dark, like a fairyland castle entrance. Unsure of proper frat house etiquette, Lindsay knocked on the doors and a loud, hollow sound resounded through what [...]

Senior year in high school, Lindsay had a boyfriend who was a freshman at Oregon State University. He was Marine Corps bound and difficult to decipher. The ins and outs of their long-distance [...]

Lindsay was a brunette and had silky, straight hair that went down to her shoulder blades. Having played soccer together for ten years, conveniently Lindsay and I also happened to dive into our [...]

Today has been a rainbow maze of junk and love and clocks with noisy second hands and ice chunks and live lobsters, to name only a few things. It never ceases to amaze me how a woman can feel, [...]

Whack Job #1:Myrtle lives in West Palm Beach, Florida. A few years ago she met her soul mate, “Cotton.” Cotton is a chicken. But not just any chicken. He is a Japanese Cotton Chicken. He sits at [...]

My car slides on thick ice halfway up the driveway to the party. I should have been in bed hours ago. BAM! I hit a rock. Nothing major, but enough to send me back down the driveway, sliding in [...]

We are snowed in up on Patton Thicket. Going anywhere would require walking half a mile through snow and melting ice, and then, where on Earth would I go anyway? It is a day that begs for [...]