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Wearing the new, cute mask a local writing friend made—deep violet pansies on a black background—my glasses were already steaming up before I hit the produce aisle. I was almost able to walk right in to my favorite grocery store, … Continue reading →

Our four slender legs walk this place now that the two-leggeds have disappeared. Where have they gone? Their long faces peer through clear squares in their dens. What is keeping them in? Occasionally one of them ventures outside, looking furtively … Continue reading →

After what has felt like nonstop work since my college and so many others stopped seeing students, shut down and converted to online teaching, I finally got outside on a lovely spring day. I took a lovely 2-mile walk around … Continue reading →

  (for Joe Thompson and the Crisp Catering crew) The man who delivers my dinner docks at my house at 11:30 a.m., steps out of his land vessel with two aluminum-foiled containers, wearing a tired smile and his chef’s trousers … Continue reading →

Jan Haag (after W.S. Merwin) You caregivers hand-holders hospice people, people who comfort You cooks chefs servers sandwich makers pizza tossers, who feed us You delivery people truck loaders postal workers sorters drivers, people who bring us things You doctors … Continue reading →

I have cut this man’s hair for years… decades, actually… and just because I’ve got the sniffles (allergies? cold? something we don’t want to think about?) doesn’t mean I can’t take up scissors and comb in my backyard for the … Continue reading →

First day of spring I step onto the front porch to greet the stranger who has come to retrieve my old sofa. Free, I’d said on social media, resisting the urge to add, to a good home. When I ask … Continue reading →

(For Dick) Go ahead—it’s the one day in four years when we can, the extra day tacked on to February when seemingly impossible things are possible: when ladies can propose to gentlemen, when any man who refuses her must buy … Continue reading →

for Dickie I watched you walk through windward-leaning cypress, head toward the edge of a seacliff into the light, a familiar silhouette angling away from me, the long shadow of life extending behind you, and I thought again, no, not … Continue reading →

We are delighted to spend Presidents’ Day weekend at The Sea Ranch, as we do most years. Last year, of course, Dick was recuperating in Honolulu after his cardiac arrest and subsequent triple bypass surgery. He spent his 76th birthday … Continue reading →