kisses are more important than rats

they take a devilishly long time to cook. But enough about that. Company on the weekend -- daughter and my friend Sean, both of whom are fel...

I have been north, south, and am now back in the Middle. I have learned a few new songs on the guitar ... one of the season's highlight...

As much as I love gardening, it does swallow a load of time. My garden's breaking out in sunflowers. I'm feeling well, now that I...

The kids are here with their partners, and all are down at the lake with their fishing rods in the spitting rain. I like the sensation of cr...

Sleep. So elementary. So elemental. Yet I can't manage it. I wake every hour through the night, often more than once. Just after 3, a...

York. After the dry, hot, and blindingly monochromatic landscape of Malta, I was happy (and a little desperate) to get back into a country w...

View from the hostel on Gozo. (where I am now) Stone walls like this divide the farms on Malta. In my little writing room at St. Joseph...