What Eleanor Knew Walter and I bought the house in 1974 when the neighborhood was still young enough that we knew every family on the block by name and the […]
The Three Binders The rain had been falling since late afternoon when I came home from the airport. I want to start with the car because the car is where […]
The Easier Person to Hurt The morning we brought the crossover home, I sat in the driver’s seat for a while before I did anything else. I just sat there […]
Why the impossibly aggressive seventy two hour deadline, I asked myself, staring at the blank kitchen wall while the grandfather clock ticked out the seconds of my supposed ruin. In […]
The Red Dress Greg and I met when I was twenty-six, in the specific way that people meet when they are young enough to believe that love is mostly a […]
What the River Remembers The Branch River has been running through our valley since before any of us had names to give it. My ancestors arrived in 1793 and found […]