Cattle. And Bananas. And Flowers.

Cattle. And Bananas. And Flowers.

My husband and I have a timeshare and a few years back we didn’t use our week. They notified us that we were going to lose the week if we didn’t use it before August, so we went on the timeshare site and looked for places. We decided to go to Guadeloupe...

Not My Thoughts, but Thoughts I Share

Undoubtedly, the most famous section of John Donne’s Meditation XVII is the following: No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a...

Possibly a New Story?

This afternoon, I sat down to start working on a short story I owe my friend Tommy for a charity anthology. I have no idea what it’s going to be about, really, but most of my short works are heavily mood-influenced, and I don’t think this will be any...