Carrot Top
I walk a path along the Hudson River several times a week. I enjoy watching the sunlight sparkle on the water and the expanse of clouds...


The Seagull
On a Tuesday afternoon, my friend Lisa and I traveled from a meeting in midtown Manhattan to her home outside of Philadelphia. She...


What Love Does
On a cool, sunny September day while waiting for a friend to join me at the golf course, the attendant and I chatted outside the...


Natalie Katherine
My grandniece is, of course, the brightest and cutest two-year-old on the planet. Since I don’t get to see her very often, my sister...


Turning a Corner
I walk a lakeside, wooded trail several times a week. In fact, I’ve traversed this particular 1.5 mile loop in every season and at every...


Mirabel
It was closing night of a one-act play festival in the small town of South Salem. A theater company set up in the basement of an...


Heaven and Earth
Do heaven and earth ever meet? I look out from my office window onto the fresh, white barn and newly mown field. A tree across the way...

