After church, I walked the dogs, hoping I’d see Dean. But he’d of course already done his paper route and I don’t think he’d come out just to see me. I spent extra time with the Three Musketeers, rehearsing in my mind what and how I would say to Dean. Finally, checking my celly for […]
I have a routine with the dogs now that Mrs. W is spending her days at the hospital with Mr. W. I no longer take piano lessons, so I have an hour in the afternoon during the week to walk the dogs after school, but on the weekends, I take them in the mornings. On […]
Ada stood by the kitchen counter, her back to the window. She might fade into a ghost, to haunt her own house. So weary, so very tired. It hadn’t seemed like John’s funeral at all. More like hers. The mail plopped down through the slot onto the hardwood floor. Ada looked out her back door […]
The two big dogs, Aramis and Athos, sit patiently with their tandem leashes clipped on, panting and all but rolling their eyes as Porthos runs in circles until I snatch his halter and leash him, too. We’re off and running as Mr. W comes to the front door. I wave but have no time or […]
Book Review: Time Enough for Love Another older work of fiction that I finally got around to reading on vacation is Time Enough for Love, a multi-nominated award science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. I was thoroughly fascinated throughout by the research and knowledge of genetics that propel the theme […]