Essays

A water main broke on our block one pretty Sunday afternoon.  I remember it was a lovely day because I was enjoying a walk and, just before the last turn onto my street, I saw the water gushing out of the curb and pouring down the street.  ‘That...

              After our Gargoyle Gecko, Mabel, joined the family, it became a top priority to make her tank as Gothic as possible.  Afterall, you can’t have a breed of gecko named for the...

                  A friend was trying to discern whether or not to start homeschooling her children and she asked for my thoughts on my experiences as a...

            “She would have been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life. “ – the Misfit from “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor In Flanner O’Connor’s...