We live for that tomorrow. That UK tomorrow being promised by talking heads on TV. End of June they say and we can be…
C. Boyle: I’ve written to you on at least a half-dozen occasions, and was flattered when you actually wrote back in hand written notes…
Hissss! Sizzle!! That was the garlic spluttering in hot coconut oil getting ready to season a pot of black-eyed bean stew. As the oil…
A pair of Blue Throated Barbet was planning to have chicks. They scouted for a good tree to make a nest and finally decided…
Sunday. 4: 30 p.m. I was at the woods. Lost in thoughts. Left to myself. The vast greenery, the chirping of the birds and…
As I sit here and watch the cascading news stories of the Corona virus mayhem racing across Europe, I can’t but feel a sharp…
They were eighteen, dark and green. Yet, they seemed as untold legends for me. Eighteen in all, gracefully they stood, erect and tall, in…
He used to tip the scales at a hefty seven pounds. These days, he weighs less than five. His hearing deserted him first, his…
Cascading down through the years like a beautiful ribbon marking the pages of my life, our friendship spanned far longer than our two lifetimes…
A son of Irish immigrants, my father became a patrolman in Cleveland’s Fourth Precinct, the roughest district in Ohio in the late 1940s and…
I have been living in the suburbs of Corpus Christi, Texas, for about six weeks now. It has been a culture shock: the transplantation…
