Her name was Arline. She was my father’s mother. She died in 1949 when my father was 16. We knew very little about her growing up. In the early 1980’s, after my grandfather died, a letter arrived at the house from my father’s aunt Marie who was six years younger than her sister. My parents were […]
In the great scheme of things, how much do things really change? Life was meaner and the time and space of human emotion more narrow 130 years ago. But the essential components of the human condition were much like they were today. I’m reminded of these things when I look at the photos below. People cluster […]
This summer has a pattern and a habit that winds through it: coming down to the kitchen in the early morning, the only one awake in the house; sliding the latch on Bella and Charlie’s crate; Bella skittering behind me in a hurry and then righting herself when I open the door off the kitchen […]