I collect quotes, arbitrary, wildly beautiful pearls of wisdom find me out of the blue almost as if they have been waiting around for me...

The first time it happened I was twenty-three and living in Detroit. I’m at a party. Someone drones on about a Gordon Lightfoot album;...

Nestled beneath the rim of the foothills that slope South to the Sea of Japan, midway between the Guardian Mountains of Hiei and Atago, a...

Next Looking, watching breathlessly For night to green the day, When Next fans out before me And clearly shows my way. When the promise...

When I was a few days shy of the better part of three, I became very ill with the reigning viral malady of the day. Trembling with fever...

No Peeking Allowed Janey's sixth birthday. We skipped school. We did not brush our hair. We ate chocolate pudding with our fingers for...

My daughter Julie and I are having a thoughtful conversation about using 2022 to its best advantage. If, as “they” say, Omicron has taken...

During the winter of my eighth year—in the days when music and art were still part of the standardized elementary school curriculum—the...

As Thanksgiving approaches here in the Western world, Santas are sighted in fast food restaurants grabbing a quick coffee and menus and...

The Rule was that no one left the table until the meal was done, but the Rule only applied to the children. The women sprang from their...

In the time when women ran the world and the world returned the favor, Mothers of every tribe took the girls who no longer walked in...

When I was a little girl, curls wrestling for dominion with red plastic barrettes that barely contained their sway, I spent every...

I’m walking down the Coast Highway the other day, minding my own business, doing a little window shopping, checking out menus at the...

November 2002: We sat on the floor in a circle, twelve women in a hotel ballroom nestled on the shores of Lake Geneve. It was the kind of...