“The old dog barks backward without getting up. I can remember when he was a pup.” –Robert Frost, “The Span of Life” My boyfriend’s older brother was twenty-one. We were seventeen at the time, so twenty-one was a glamorous wedding...
If you’d never been born, well then what would you be? You might be a fish! Or a toad in a tree! You might be a doorknob! Or three baked potatoes! You might be a bag full of hard green tomatoes. Or worse than all that . . .Why, you might be a WASN’T. A Wasn’t...
“There are five individually decorated guest rooms, two with a fireplace and three with a bath. The North Room features a hooped canopied bed and an assortment of antique pieces, including a washstand, a rocker, a table with lamp, and a ladderback...
“I venture to say that most people most of the time experience the same four-o’clock-in-the-afternoon devaluation. But I have noticed an interesting thing. If such a person, a person like me feeling lapsed at four o’clock in the afternoon,...
