This morning, my mind woke me up with the usual b.s.: how are you going to get out of debt, how are you going to get everything done, why don’t you ever exercise anymore, etc., and just as I was about to roll over and try to sleep some more, I remembered it was a…

Betty is dead. She died under the fig tree I had just seen her under two hours ago, happily eating and pecking at the ground. And now she’s dead, under a low lying limb, like she was going to get up but something told her to stay down on the black soil for a minute…

My father died on this day two years ago. He had requested that his body be donated to science, and my brother and I honored that request. His remains would be returned to me once the Anatomical Society was done with his body, which I was told could take up to three years. Surprisingly they…

There had been a live feed of the destruction. Once it started, it was hard to look away. It was my birthday, and I had been on this earth for 42 years at five in the morning, but by noon they were tearing down the kitchen I used to flirt with you in when I…

  I had to pick Frankie up from the groomers on my lunch break, and since we were close to my dad’s nursing home I decided to stop and let Frankie visit his granddaddy. As we were walking towards the entrance, I noticed an elderly fellow on a bench by himself. I had not seen…

As I was walking Frankie this morning, my cell phone rang from deep in my pockets. The number displayed was unfamiliar, but it was 7 am on a Sunday so maybe it was important. After I said hello, the woman’s voice on the other end was cracked and old as she asked to speak to…

I try to warn people. I pull him to the side of trails, run the opposite direction, and make sure he never encounters a live dog when he’s on a leash. But sometimes he’s very sweet to other dogs, so I never really know what I’m going to get. But most of the time, no…