When I was a child we always had family pets, one dog and one cat. It was always a big dog, and early in my childhood we had boxers. Both pets lived inside the house with us and in time would become... Read more >>

I love my guitar. I also love the music that comes from it while I play. It’s good for my soul. I run my fingers over the strings and my music goes through me, then out. It’s very... Read more >>

The thunder rolled and dark storm clouds moved in while we were out following my eight-year-old daughter’s last indoor soccer game of the summer. We were eating at a little sports bar when... Read more >>

Ginny and I sat on the deck, like we do a lot, and watched the world flow by. A robin flew into the tree in the yard. It had a twig its mouth. “Looks like they’re building a nest,”... Read more >>

Sick and tired of hearing the whining from your single friends about how hard the dating scene is? Had it up to here with your girlfriend wearing her calming facemask to bed and your boyfriend’s... Read more >>

Every morning when I come downstairs and I am home alone, our little parakeet greets me with her cheerful song. Her cage sits on a small white stool near a window looking out into the backyard. Once I... Read more >>

Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds was on my mother’s list of banned television watching for my younger sister and me. (So was Three’s Company, but for entirely different reasons.)... Read more >>

After spending a bit over three decades of my life trying to channel the exuberant extrovert most everyone expected me to be, I recently admitted to myself and a few others that I am really not that... Read more >>

“Right now, it’s quiet,” Jay Holcomb says on his cell phone from the shore in Louisiana. But is it the quiet before the storm? “That’s the million-dollar... Read more >>

  Every morning I sit outside my small bamboo home I sometimes like to sit out here alone In order to enjoy the birds beautiful music In order to enjoy the fresh aroma from... Read more >>