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My mother would eat cottage cheese and fruit —berries or a cut up apple—for lunch. Or a bran muffin with yogurt. She liked grapefruit, had special spoons for sectioning, saved the peels to dry and candy. Saved all those cottage...

Let us praise the heart, how it persists despite fluster. Our rugged heart, broken and healed many times over, and yet its daily work continues. Today is a day for cleaning out the garden bed. Already we wake in darkness,...

My father comes every day, looks through the glass at me, in the incubator, so we can be together in our aloneness, later holds me in the palm of his hand where I gaze into his blue eyes, though I have no word for it. Our ocean...

The black walnut tree stands naked against an unseasonably blue sky. Migrating birds gone south, we are left with this: a rake, a shovel, a shift in time. Fig leaves, yesterday drooping like surrender flags, drop all at once,...

Yes, I do wonder if there is some sort of consciousness after we are gone. And as I just revisited a photo on my Facebook page of a long-time friend named Ray who passed away around three years ago, I’m wondering if he has any...

Pulling into my driveway about 30 seconds before Ester— my 97-year-old neighbor—comes up pushing a basket with a grocery bag inside, I get out of my car and start a little conversation with her, and around two minutes in, she...