Who can understand why some art touches us and not others, or vice-versa? The other evening at a supper party, talk turned to movies...

“You have to understand . . . ,” he paused a second, both of us were breathing heavy from race-walking, “. . . I grew up in New York.”...

While I was dusting the rental house, control though, suddenly became a big problem. I heard a loud thud upstairs followed by my husband...

Sometimes I’ve wondered, if in a hundred years, we’d call this time period we’re living in—the early 2000’s—the in-between time of...

I’ve taken several road trips through the West since airplane travel is not my favorite form of terror. The upside of a flying phobia is...

Wes is Dying My father-in-law Wes, is 97 year old and dying. It’s time and maybe, past time. He was born in November of 1921, three years...

How will we stay warm this winter? Two hundred years ago that was a real concern, even a hundred years ago. Most of us are not like Elsa,...

I’d never been to Niagara Falls but I’ve been to Shoshone Falls, and how different could they be anyway? Shoshone Falls is spectacular...

I like to hike Chase’s hill, the one that rises above his house and the Snake River. The gravel road is a steady incline, cut at an angle...

Since Covid-19, some people enjoy the variety of working from home.  They feel better about the “drudgery factor” related to their daily...

My adult son, John, came home for a visit and told me, “Ignore anything I say that sounds off—it’s my suppressed-narcissistic-rage...

In 1960 my second-grade teacher was an older woman named Mrs. Peterson. Sometimes she’d stand over me as I worked at my desk and pat my...

What better summer vacation destination can there be than Grand Teton National Park? I’ve seen the Teton’s several times and the...

Sometimes (a poem) by Sheenagh Pugh Sometimes things don’t go, after all, from bad to worse. Some years, muscadel faces down frost;...