Daylight saving. Hooray, I say, along with, well, everyone, more light in the evening. In an attempt to make something of it, a lot of pundits, politicians and reporters will pick up the age-old debate of time change—to do or not to do. It’s a [...]
Heirlooms: Revisited, The NY Times published two paragraphs from this essay online on Nov. 22, 2022. From a submission by Meg Kenagy, 76, from Portland, Ore. “We cleaned out our mother’s kitchen, my sisters and I, in fits and starts, when she died 17 years ago. No one else wanted [...]
Rabbit Rabbit. Say it before anything. Coax in all the luck you can.
I wrote this sentence in an essay: “I learned that, when a thunderstorm was overhead, lightening cracking over thunder, it rattled the tent and shivered the trees, and in its awesomeness, you could hear sailors keening and the silence of birds as they burrowed deep into tree branches.” The writers [...]
The Great Gatsby enters the public domain in 2021, and fans intent on writing new versions of the novel are already sharpening their pencils—somewhat figuratively, I assume. Does anyone write with a pencil? Who knows, that’s the joy of fan fiction: When Gatsby belongs to everyone, everyone is a writer, and [...]
Today, Christmas breathing down my neck, I am faced with a trip to the department of motor vehicles, a visit to the Costco warehouse store, a pile of packages to mail, and a long shopping list. I know exactly what kind of day is ahead of me. Of course, I [...]
I have carried on for years, buying up titles, in the grand belief that, one day, it might be me in that deck chair. That one day, it might be me, luxuriating in the promised land of Summer Reading.
When I was young, I was quite certain that birds had words, and if I just listened harder or at the right time or if I was able to decipher the music notes in my grandmother’s bird book, I would know what they were saying, where they were going, and [...]